terror and persuasion

Question 1

what was the role of the SS?

Answer 1

-initially hitlers personal bodyguard
-set up concentration camps
-oversaw other organisations

Question 2

when was the SS formed?

Answer 2

1925

Question 3

how many members did the SS have in 1934?

Answer 3

more than 50,000 members

Question 4

after the night of the long knives, what was the SS’s job?

Answer 4

responsible for the removal of opposition within germany

Question 5

how many members were there in the SS and its various bodies in 1939?

Answer 5

250,000

Question 6

who ran the SS?

Answer 6

heinrich himmler

Question 7

what was the gestapo?

Answer 7

-the secret police force
-monitored the german population for signs of opposition to nazi rule - arrested opposition
-helped by german people reporting fellow citizen

Question 8

when was the gestapo set up?

Answer 8

1933

Question 9

who ran the gestapo?

Answer 9

goering

Question 10

how many people in german were under arrest for political crimes in 1939?

Answer 10

160,000

Question 11

when was the SD set up?

Answer 11

1931

Question 12

what was the SD’s job?

Answer 12

-the intelegence body of the nazi party
-aimed to discover political enemies and remove them

Question 13

who ran the SD?

Answer 13

Heydrich

Question 14

why were concentration camps established?

Answer 14

to confine enemies of state

Question 15

what did judges have to become members of under the nazi regime? what additional thing did they also have to do?

Answer 15

-the Nationalist Socialist League for the Maintinence of Law
-had to swear an oath of loyalty to the furher

Question 16

when was the german lawyers front established? how many members did it have by the end of the year?

Answer 16

-1933
-10,000

Question 17

what was the minister of justice?

Answer 17

an additional role introduced that would check if judges had been too lenient

Question 18

when did judges have to start wearing the swastika and nazi eagle?

Answer 18

1936

Question 19

what did Hitler have the power to do if he felt judge’s sentences were too soft?

Answer 19

had the power to alter sentences if he thought they were too soft

Question 20

when was the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda set up?

Answer 20

1934

Question 21

who set up the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda?

Answer 21

Josef Goebbles

Question 22

what was the purpose of the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda?

Answer 22

-control the thoughts and beliefs of the german people
-used radio, cinema ect

Question 23

how did Goebbles use cinema as a form of propaganda?

Answer 23

-used it to glorify the actions of the nazis
-made anti-semetic films
-a state run professional school for politically reliable fim-makers was founded

Question 24

nazis used mass rallies as propaganda - an example of a mass rally was the annual mass rally in …

Answer 24

Nuremburg every August

Question 25

books were carefully censored by the nazis - how many books written by political opponents did students in Berlin burn in 1933?

Answer 25

20,000

Question 26

when was the Reich Press Law passed?

Answer 26

1933

Question 27

what music were the german people encouraged to listen to?

Answer 27

-Jewish composers like Mendelssohn were banned
-german composer Wagner was promoted
-Jazz was banned as it was ‘black music’

Question 28

art in the Weimar period had flourished but Hitler saw a lot of that modern art as…

Answer 28

degenerate

Question 29

how many pieces of art were removed from display across Germany?

Answer 29

6,500