Nazis 1939-1945

Question 1

Who were the SS?

Answer 1

-Hitlers private army who were used to destroy nazi opposition and enforce racial policies

Question 2

Who lead the SS?

Answer 2

-Himmler

Question 3

Who were the Gestapo?

Answer 3

-The Secret Police who could arrest people on suspicion and send people to concentration camps without trial

Question 4

Who lead the Gestapo?

Answer 4

-Heydrich

Question 5

What were the Nazis opinion on women?

Answer 5

• They were to be a wife and mother
• Married women to be restricted with work
• To have lots and lots of children

Question 6

What did Hitler do to indoctrinate children?

Answer 6

• Set up the Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens to learn Nazi ideals
• Schools were angled to teach Nazi ideas
• Youth camps to encourage physical health

Question 7

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 7

-Laws restricting the rights of Jews and what they could do

Question 8

What was Kristallnacht in 1938?

Answer 8

• The destruction of Jewish property and attacking Jews
• Synagogues and Jewish businesses were destroyed
• Jews were killed,injured and over 20,000 were taken to concentration camps causing any who escaped to flee the country

Question 9

What were the stages of the Genocide of ‘undesirables’?

Answer 9

• Ghettos (where they were separated from everyone else in poor conditions)
• Einsatzgruppen (Nazi firing squads that would shoot Jews into mass graves)
• The Final Solution

Question 10

What was The Final Solution?

Answer 10

-Shipping undesirables to Death Camps where they were predominately gassed

Question 11

How did Propaganda affect peoples views?

Answer 11

• They stressed the importance and superiority of the German people
• They villainised and turned people against anyone they saw as undesirables

Question 12

How did they censor the media?

Answer 12

• By altering films, art etc to reflect pro-nazi ideals

- Burning books that didn’t reflect Nazi values (or written by Jewish people)

Question 13

Was there resistance?

Answer 13

• Sort of but most people were too afraid to speak out

- Mostly young people protested and more about being stopped from listening Jazz than actual reasons

Question 14

Name two resistance groups.

Answer 14

• White Rose Group-Uni students from Munich who used leaflets and posters to criticise the Nazis. Hans and Sophie Scholl lead it and both ended up caught, tortured and killed.
• Edelweiss Pirates-Working class boys who mocked the Hitler Youth and attacked officers. Some were killed but most were ignored.