Origins of Nazi Party

Question 1

What is meant by ‘Fuhrer’?

Answer 1

Supreme leader (combining role of president and chancellor)

Question 2

What is meant by ‘Volk’?

Answer 2

The German people

Question 3

What is meant by ‘Reich’?

Answer 3

Empire

Question 4

What is meant by ‘Aryan race’?

Answer 4

Master Race - typically physically fit, blonde and blue-eyed. Women able to bear children.

Question 5

What is meant by ‘Volksgemeinschaft’?

Answer 5

People’s community

Question 6

What is meant by ‘Lebensraum’?

Answer 6

Living space - the aim of German expansion to the east

Question 7

Who was Anton Draxler?

Answer 7

The founder of the German Workers’ Party

Question 8

What was the DAP?

Answer 8

Deutsche Arberiter Partei (German Workers’ Party)

Question 9

Who were the NSDAP?

Answer 9

The National Socialist German Workers’ Party

Question 10

Who were the SA?

Answer 10

The Sturmabteilung (Stormtroopers) - Hitler’s private army

Question 11

What was the Swastika?

Answer 11

The Nazi Party emblem

Question 12

Who were the brownshirts?

Answer 12

The SA (their nickname)

Question 13

Who was Ernst Rohm

Answer 13

Leader of the SA

Question 14

What were some of the aims of the DAP? (Included within the 25 Point Programme)

Answer 14

• Scrap ToV
• expand Germany’s borders to give people lebensraum (living space)
• deprive the Jews of their citizenship

Question 15

What did the German Workers’ Party (DAP) think about democracy?

Answer 15

They believed it was a weak form of government

Question 16

Which groups did the German Workers’ Party (DAP) hate in particular?

Answer 16

• Communists and socialists - for bringing down the Kaiser
• The Weimar politicians who had accepted the ToV
• The Jews, who they blamed for Germany’s economic problems