Nazi politics

Question 1

Hitler appointed on Chancellor on ….

Answer 1

30th Jan 1933

Question 2

Reichstag Fire (Feb 1933) lead to ….

Answer 2

Reichstag Fire Decree - suspended civil liberties
4000 communists beaten, murdered and imprisoned
Exaggerated Communist threat

Question 3

Enabling Act allowed …

Answer 3

Cabinet to introduce laws without having to pass them through Reichstag.

Question 4

Night of the Long Knives took place on …

Answer 4

30th June 1934

Question 5

People killed in Night of LK

Answer 5

Ernest Rohm ( SA leader), Sleicher and 400 others.

Question 6

Law Against Formation of New parties

Answer 6

July 1933

Question 7

Changes in instituions

Answer 7

Judiciary - non co-op judges forced to retire
People’s court to try political crimes
Civil service - purged of Jews and Socialists in 1933, all had to be party members by 1934

Question 8

Changes in election

Answer 8

Fraud, ballot rigging, intimidation

Question 9

Working towards the Fuhrer means

Answer 9

Hitler’s will was only basis for Nazi policy so Nazis spent as much time with him so they could make policies on what he said. Lead to more extreme policies e.g euthansia

Question 10

Key Nazi figures

Answer 10

Himmler - Assistant Chief of Gestapo, set up Dachau, key role in Night of LK
Goering - Established concentration camps, commanded Luftwaffe from 1935. Hitler’s successor
Goebbels - Minister of propaganda and enlightenment from 1933.

Question 11

War year changes

Answer 11

SS grew to 900,000 by 1944
Gvt broke down
Gauleteirs given extensive powers
Purge of 200 army officers in 1944