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Who organised Germany’s finances to pay for work creation programmes?

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Dr Hjalmar Schacht

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What projects did the national labour service send men to work in?

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Building motor ways
Railway extensions
House building

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3
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What was introduced in 1935?

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Conscription

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4
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What was made in 1936?

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The four year plan

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Hitler wanted Germany to be self-sufficient, what did this mean?

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They would have enough goods and food to support themselves through war

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The German army’s need for weapons, equipment and uniforms would create jobs in what three industries?

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Coal mines
Steel industry
Textile mills

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What was Germany’s new airforce called?

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Luftwaffe

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8
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What did trade unions do for workers?

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Protected workers rights

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9
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What did the German labour front prevent workers doing?

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Forbidden from going on strikes

Couldn’t move to better paid jobs

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10
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What did the ‘strength through joy’ scheme give workers?

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Give cheap cinema/ theatre tickets

Organise courses/trips

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What the ‘voltswagen beetle’ scheme give workers?

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Asked workers to save for a car

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What did the ‘beauty of labour’ scheme do for workers?

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Improved working conditions, such as washing facilities and cheaper canteens

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13
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What did nazis refer to farmers as to make them feel special?

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‘Blood and soil’

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14
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What organisation was set up in 1933 to make sure farmers goods could be sold across Germany?

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Reich food estate

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15
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What was the problemwith the reich food estate?

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Successful farmers where held back by following same rules as less efficient farmers

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What law protected farmers from banks if they couldn’t pay their mortgage?

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Reich entailed farm law

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17
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What two groups did big businesses no longer have to worry about?

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Communists

Trade unions

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18
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What company gained a huge government contract to make explosives, fertiliser and fake oil?

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IG Farben

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19
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What year and month was food rationing introduced?

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September 1939

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20
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What year and month was clothes rationing introduced?

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November 1939

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21
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Who was Germany’s minister for war?

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Albert Speer

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22
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What city was virtually destroyed by British bombings in 1942?

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Lubeck

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23
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How many German civilians were killed by bombings?

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500,000

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24
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How many German civilians were injured by bombings?

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750,000

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25
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How many civilians were left homeless by bombings?

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7.5 million

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26
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What year did Hitler invade Russia?

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1941

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27
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What are refugees?

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People forced to leave their homes due to war

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28
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How did refugees suffer?

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Homes were destroyed 
Fear of invading Russians 
Walked hundreds of miles 
Food shortages 
Cold conditions 
Disease
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29
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How many refugees died leaving their homes?

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500,000

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30
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What law gave newly married couples a loan of 1000 reichmarks?

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Law for the encouragement of marriage

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What year was the law for the encouragement of marriage introduced?

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June 1933

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32
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How would children affect the repayments of the government loan?

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One child 25% didn’t have to be payed
Two children halved repayments
Four children cleared the loan

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33
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What jobs were women removed from under nazi rule?

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Teachers and doctors

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34
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What award was given to women who had a large number of children?

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Motherhood cross

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35
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How many children would give a woman a gold, silver and bronze medal?

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Gold 8 children
Silver 6 children
Bronze 4 children

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36
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How were women who received the motherhood cross treated?

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Given special status
Hitler youth saluted them
Given special seat at nazi meetings

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37
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What maternity centres allowed single women to become pregnant by an SS or aryan German?

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Lebensborns

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38
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What did the birth rate increase from in 1933 and to in 1939?

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15 per thousand 1933 to 20 per thousand 1939

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39
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What happened to women during ww2?

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Forced to go back to work

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40
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What was the name of the perfect German race?

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Aryan

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41
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What were school children taught about the Weimar Republic?

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They were criminals, not good for Germany

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42
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What was the name given to the Jews that meant ‘sub-human’?

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Untermenschen

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43
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What club would boys join outside of school?

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Hitler youth

44
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What club would girls join outside of school?

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League of German maidens

45
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What things would boys do in the Hitler youth?

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Parade 
March 
Camping 
Sports 
Rifle shooting
46
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Who were children encouraged to spy/inform on?

A

Parents

47
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What youth opposition group tended to be working class and more violent in their methods?

A

Edelweiss pirates

48
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What group tended to be middle class and non-violent?

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Swing youth

49
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What places would swing youth hang out?

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Bars
Nightclubs
Houses in the city

50
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What did swing youth do that went against nazi ideas?

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Listened to British American music
Accepted Jews
Openly spoke about sex

51
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How did the Edelweiss pirates help the allies?

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Pushed leaflets dropped by planes through people’s letter boxes

52
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What did Barthes Schink and the cologne pirates do to be executed in 1944?

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Stole armaments and attacked nazi gestapo killing the chief

53
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What agreement did Hitler make with the church in 1933?

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Concordat

54
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How did nazis try to unify all the Protestant churches?

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Created nazi reich church

55
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What member of the church spoke out against the nazis and made a different Protestant church?

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Martin Niemoller

56
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What member of the church led a popular protest against the killing of mentally disabled people?

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Clemens Von Galen

57
Q

What nazi group stopped Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1937?

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Gestapo

58
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What group of people did Bonhoeffer help escape Germany?

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Jews

59
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Why was Bonhoeffer arrested in 1942?

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Contacted allied commanders

60
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What year was Bonhoeffer hanged?

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April 1945

61
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What were Jews banned from in 1933?

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Civil service and teaching jobs

62
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What two things happened to Jewish shops in 1933?

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Marked with Star of David

Boycotted

63
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How many people were sterilised between 1934 and 1945?

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300,000

64
Q

Why did much of the persecution stop in 1936?

A

Berlin olympics

65
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What does kristallnacht mean on English?

A

Night of broken glass

66
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kristallnacht happened In November of what year?

A

1938

67
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Name two things that happened on kristallnacht?

A

Jewish Shops were smashed

Synagogues were burned

68
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5/6 of what group were killed in 1939?

A

Gypsies

69
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What were Homosexuals, alcoholics, the homeless, prostitutes, criminals and beggars known as?

A

Asocials

70
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How many mentally ill people were gased between 1939 and 1941?

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72,000

71
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What groups of people did the euthanasia programme kill 5000 of?

A

Disabled babies and children

72
Q

What meeting decided to kill the Jews under nazi occupation?

A

Wannsee conference

73
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The wannsee conference took place in January of what year?

A

1942

74
Q

What senior nazi was put in charge of the final solution?

A

Heinrich himmler

75
Q

Name one place the extermination of the Jews was carried out?

A

Aushwitz

76
Q

What was the difference between a death camp and concentration camp?

A

Concentration camps were labour or work camps

Death camps were designed to kill people within days or weeks of arriving

77
Q

Name two conditions of the two camps?

A

Little food

Disease

78
Q

What group of Jews had to remove gold fillings and hair from people who were gassed?

A

Sonderkommando

79
Q

A major death camp in Poland could burn how many bodies a day?

A

12,000

80
Q

What gas crystals were used in the gas chambers?

A

Zyklon B

81
Q

Give three examples of groups in German society blamed for the events?

A

Civil service
Police
German people

82
Q

What nazi was in charge of propaganda?

A

Joseph Goebbels

83
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What was goebbels title?

A

Minister of propaganda and enlightenment

84
Q

What rally took place every year that included speeches and marches that impressed German people?

A

Nuremburg

85
Q

What happened to foreign films that went into Germany?

A

They were censored

86
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How could nazi messages be directed into people’s homes, streets and pubs?

A

Radios

87
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What were put up in walls to show nazi ideas?

A

Posters

88
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How were newspapers affected by the nazis?

A

Not allowed to print anti nazi ideas

89
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What was the ‘book-burning’ of 1933

A

Students burned books against nazi ideals

90
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What senior nazi was out in charge of the German police forces?

A

Heinrich himmler

91
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What was the SS originally set up as?

A

Hitlers bodyguards

92
Q

What two groups were the SS split in to?

A

Waffen SS, deaths head

93
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What did the two SS groups do?

A

Waffen SS- elite army group

Deaths head- ran concentration camps

94
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What was the secret police known as?

A

Gestapo

95
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What could the secret police do?

A

Spy on people
Listen to phone calls
Open mail

96
Q

Where were ‘enemies of state’ sent?

A

Concentration camps

97
Q

How did the police help the Nazis?

A

Ignored nazi crimes

98
Q

How did judges and the Courts help the Nazis?

A

Swore and oath of loyalty to Hitler

Sentenced people harshly for going against The Nazis

99
Q

What students printed anti-nazi leaflets when they were students at university?

A

Hans and Sophie scholl

100
Q

What non violent group did hans and Sophie form

A

The white rose group

101
Q

What happened to the leaders of the white rose group?

A

Arrested and beheaded

102
Q

When were the leaders of the white rose group arrested and beheaded?

A

1942-43

103
Q

What nazi army officer tried to blow up Hitler with a suitcase bomb?

A

Claus Von stauffenberg

104
Q

What year did the assassination attempt of Hitler take place?

A

1944

105
Q

Why did the assassination attempt of Hitler fail?

A

The bomb was moved

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