Nazi Germany January 1933-August 1934

Question 1

Describe Hitler’s personality

Answer 1

Lazy
Brave
Patriotic 
Anti-Semitic 
Loved warfare

Question 2

Who was Goebblels

Answer 2

In charge of creating propaganda

Question 3

Who was Rohm

Answer 3

Led the 400,000 SA Storm Troopers

Question 4

Who was Himmler

Answer 4

Fanatical about Nazi ideas - created 50,000 SS

Question 5

Who was Goring

Answer 5

Ex-WWI fighter pilot, created the GESTAPO

Question 6

Describe the layout you would use for a source question

Answer 6

Answer the Question - This source tells us that…

Specific Details

Contextual Knowledge

Provenance

Question 7

When was the Reichstag fire

Answer 7

February 1933

Question 8

Who was arrested for the Reichstag Fire

Answer 8

Marinus Van de Lubbe

Question 9

What did Hitler make Hindenburg pass as a result of the Reichstag fire and what did it mean

Answer 9

Article 48

Severely restricted civil liberties including the freedom to meet in large groups

4000 communist members where put in jail

Communist press meetings were banned

Question 10

What was Germany’s reaction the the banning of the communist party

Answer 10

The middle class were happy, as they blamed the communists for the increasing level of violence in German streets and feared a communist revolution.

Question 11

Why was Hitler confident that the Nazi party would win the elections

Answer 11

Communists out the way

SA and SS patrolled the streets intimidating voters to vote for the Nazis

Question 12

What percentage of the vote did Hitler win in the elections

Answer 12

43%

Question 13

What was the Enabling Act

Answer 13

March 24 - 1933
The law would give Hitler the power to pass any law he liked without consulting the Reichstag.

He did this by surrounding the Reichstag members with SA guards. In the face of intimidation and over fears about Germany’s security after the Reichstag fire; 444 members voted for it with only 94 voting against it.

Question 14

Give some of the 1933 legislations passed as a result of the Enabling Act

Answer 14

Civil Service Act - removed any civil servant who were Jewish or opposed Nazi values

Fearing a trade union strike, the Nazis arrested key leaders and the remaining ones worked with the Nazis, before being arrested too and the DAF was created (German Labour Front)

June 21 - Social Democrats banned. 300 arrested. Other parties voluntarily dissolved after seeing what happened to the SPD

July 14 - law passed banning creation of new parties

Question 15

When was the law passed banning new parties

Answer 15

1933, July 14

Question 16

How many Social Democrats were arrested

Answer 16

3000

Question 17

When was the People’s court created

Answer 17

1934

Question 18

What was the people’s court

Answer 18

Hitler created a new court that would be totally obedient to the Nazis. This court was outside the normal justice system and dealt with political opposition

Question 19

By 1934, what obstacles had Hitler overcome

Answer 19

No more opposition parties
Now controls justice system
Can pass any law
More state power

Question 20

By 1934, the SA were becoming almost……………..to control and was……..the Nazi reputation

Answer 20

Impossible

Damaging

Question 21

How big were the SA

Answer 21

3 million

Question 22

What was Hitler’s problem wit Rohm

Answer 22

Rohm wanted to take over the german army, when Hitler refused he openly criticised him in public

Question 23

How did Hitler frame the SA

Answer 23

Made the SS to make up evidence proving that the SA were planning a national uprising

Question 24

How many SA were killed

Answer 24

85 were murdered including 15 Reichstag members

Question 25

What were the consequences of the Night of Long Knives

Answer 25

The power of the SA was reduced and membership shrunk to 1.6 million by 1935

The SS had proved the power and loyalty and so took over form the SA as the most important Nazi organisation

The loyalty of the army grew as they knew that Hitler had prevented a takeover by the SA

The killing of the SA members normalised murder by the state and Hitler as the supreme judge

This also created a culture of fear that became an important mechanism to control the German people in the future.

Question 26

Give 3 reasons that suggest that Hitlers rise to power was as a result of violence

Answer 26

Night of Long Knives

Used violence to pass the Enabling Act

As a result, new legislations were brought in hat increased his power

Question 27

Give 2 reasons that suggest that Hitler’s rise to power was not as a result of violence

Answer 27

He politically manoeuvred himself into a better position after the Reichstag fire

Used his power as a persuasive speaker
- coalition

Question 28

Give the 5 reasons on why Hitler rose to power

Answer 28

Reichstag fire
Enabling Act
Night of Long Knives
Deathbed Hindenburg
Oath from the German army

Question 29

Give the 5 ways in which the Nazis spread propaganda

Answer 29

Berlin Olympics
Newspapers
Radios
Rallies
Films

Question 30

What percentage of people had a radio by 1939

Answer 30

70%, highest in the world

Question 31

Why did so many have radio and why was it so effective

Answer 31

Nazis produced a cheap set that only costa weeks wage called the ‘People’s Receivers ‘.

Limited range so couldn’t pick up foreign stations
Swastica on back
Broadcasters could only promote the Nazis