Nazi Germany

Question 1

When did the “Final Solution” take action?

Answer 1

In 1942 minutes Jen Nazi officials decided on a plan to create large scale death camps for Jews to be liquidated in. This would take over 6 million Jewish lives across Europe by the end of WWII.

Question 2

What happened to those responsible?

Answer 2

The Nuremberg trials which lasted between 1945-1948 for high ranked Nazi officials.

Question 3

What was the “Final Solution”?

Answer 3

The plan to finally “rid of Germany’s problems by extinguishing the Jewish population.”

Question 4

What was the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 4

The treaty that ended WW1 for Germany which was enacted on June 28th, 1919. Between Germany , USA, UK, and France.

Question 5

What were the Youth Groups Established?

Answer 5

Ages 6-10: Pimpefen
Ages 10-14: Deutsches Jungvolk and Jungmadel
Ages 14-18: Hitlerjugend and Bund Deutscher Madel

Question 6

What were the reparations Germany faced that were established in the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 6

1. Germany had to accept responsibility of WW1 called the “War Guilt Clause”.
2. Germany had to pay for damages.
3. Germany losses 13% of its land and six-million people.
4. Germany had all of its colonies taken.
5. The German army would be limited. No Air Force or submarines allowed.
6. Part of Germany (the Rhineland) would be occupied by allied troops for a period of 15 years.
7. No “Anschluss” allowed.

Question 7

What forms of propaganda were used by the Nazi Party?

Answer 7

Written - Mein Kampf (Hitler, 1924) and Der Sturmer: The Nazi Newspaper.
Song - Horst Wessel Song
Film - Triumph of the Will (1935)
Art
Cult of Personality

Question 8

What was the Weimar Republic?

Answer 8

The government of Germany that lasted from 1919-1933. It was a democratic republic multi-party democracy.

Question 9

What stopped the rein of the Nazi Party?

Answer 9

Hitler committing suicide in his Berlin Bunker on April 30, 1945.

Question 10

What was Hyperinflation?

Answer 10

German currency rapidly lost value in the Early 1920’s.

Question 11

What were the Death camps?

Answer 11

Auschwitz/Birkenau
Treblinka
Chlemno
Belzec
Sobibor 
Majdanek

Question 12

What were some officials faced with the Nuremberg Trials?

Answer 12

Hermann Goring - Air Force chief, president of the Reichstag.
Rudolf Hess - Deputy to Hitler and Nazi Party Leader.
Balfour von Schirach - Leader of Hitler Youth.
Julius Streicher - Editor of Der Sturmur.

Question 13

What were the top officials of the Weimar Republic?

Answer 13

President- Elected

Chancellor- Appointed

Question 14

What were ways Hitler maintained control?

Answer 14

1. Persecution - The Gestapo
2. Purges - most famous being 1934, “Night of the Long Knives”.
3. Concentration Camps
4. Brainwashing Youth
5. Education - National Socialist Teachers’ League
6. Propaganda - Joseph Goebbels: Reichsminister for Propaganda and National Enlightenment.
7. Large Scale Censorship - Book burning/banning

Question 15

In what year did the NSDAP popularity sky rocket?

Answer 15

In July of 1932 the NSDAP would earn the majority of representation in the Reichstag. they would later become the single party dictatorship in 1933.

Question 16

What was Kristallnacht?

Answer 16

“The Night of Broken Glass” in 1938 which involved mass violence amongst the German Jewish population. 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps.

Question 17

What year did WWII break out?

Answer 17

1939 when Germany invaded Poland

Question 18

What is Genocide?

Answer 18

A. Killing members of a group (nationality, religion, ethnicity, etc.)
B. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of a group.
C. Deliberately inflicting on the group of conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction in whole or in part.
D. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
E. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another.

Question 19

What were issued the the 1935 Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 19

1. Deprived Jews of German Citizenship.
   2 Jews cannot marry or have social relations with non-Jews.
2. Jews cannot fly German flag.
3. Isolates Jews from rest of German society.

Question 20

What year did Germany invade the USSR?

Answer 20

1941 using einsatzgruppen to kill and capture Jewish Russians.

Question 21

What were some of the problems facing the Weimar Republic?

Answer 21

1. Losing WW1
2. Treaty of Versailles
3. Early Economic Crisis

Question 22

What was the first revolution of the Nazi Party?

Answer 22

The Beer Hall Putsch in Munich in November 1923. This attempt failed and left thousands of Nazi’s dead as well as Hitler going to jail where he reassess his strategy.