The Creation Of The Nazi Dictatorship 8: Gleichschaltung

Question 0

What was the constitutional foundation of the Third Reich?

Answer 0

The Enabling Act was the constitutional foundation for the third reich

Question 1

What does Gleichschaltung or Coordination mean?

Answer 1

The ‘honey combing’ of German society with Party Associations and institutions in an attempt to Nazify the life of Germany

Question 2

What did the enabling Act provide the basis for?

Answer 2

It provided the basis for the dictatorship that evolved from 1933

Question 3

To an extent what was Gleichschaltung generated by?

Answer 3

To an extent Gleichschaltung was generated by the revolution from below with the SA but also the revolution from above with the Nazi Leadership in Berlin

Question 4

Together what did the nazis try to do?

Answer 4

Attempted to coordinate as many aspects of German life as possible with the merging of German society with Party associations

Question 5

In Spring and Summer 1933 what was the priority of the nazi leadership?

Answer 5

To secure its political supremacy so it’s real focus of attention eas thr coordination of federal states

Question 6

What were federal states?

Answer 6

Where responsibilities are shared between national and regional governments

Question 7

What had a federal structure?

Answer 7

Weimar germany

Question 8

How many Länder did Weimar. Germany have?

Answer 8

17 Länder for example Saxony and Prussia

Question 9

What did the nazi party want control over?

Answer 9

Everything

Question 10

What happened in April 1933?

Answer 10

Two laws were passed

Question 11

What did the first law of april 1933 allow?

Answer 11

Allowed Nazi dominated state governments to pass legislation without first asking the state parliament to vote on the matter

Question 12

What did the second act of april 1933 create?

Answer 12

Created 18 Reichstatthalter ( REICH GOVERNORS )

Question 13

What were both the laws of april 1933 examples of?

Answer 13

Nazi centralisation

Question 14

How was the process of centralisation taken further in january 1934?

Answer 14

The Landgate were abolished

Question 15

What were landgate?

Answer 15

Regional parliaments

Question 16

Why were trade unions a threat?

Answer 16

They had mass membership and strong connections with socialism and catholicism

Question 17

What weakened the Trade Unions?

Answer 17

The Great Depression severely weakened it by reducing its membership and its will to resist

Question 18

What did the nazis declare on the 1st of may 1933?

Answer 18

They declared a national holiday

Question 19

What happened the following day on the 2nd of may 1933?

Answer 19

Trade union premises were occupied by the SA and the SS and many leaders were arrested and sent to early concentration camps such as Dachau

Question 20

Thereafter what were all trade unions declared?

Answer 20

Illegal

Question 21

After the trade unions being declared illegal, what were all german workers and organisations engulfed into?

Answer 21

The DAF: German Labour Front

Question 22

What did the DAF act as?

Answer 22

An instrument of control and german workers lost the right to negotiate wages

Question 23

What did Nazis reject?

Answer 23

Democracy

Question 24

Since the Reichstag fire on the 27th of February 1933 who had been banned and where had their leaders been thrown?

Answer 24

The communists had been banned and their leaders had been thrown into prisons or worse

Question 25

Who were officially banned on the 22nd of June 1933?

Answer 25

The Social Democrats

Question 26

When were the Social Democrats (SPD) officially banned?

Answer 26

22nd of june 1933

Question 27

What did most remaining major political parties willingly agree to do in June 1933?

Answer 27

Dissolve themselves

Question 28

Finally who gave up too?

Answer 28

The Catholic centre party

Question 29

On July the 14th 1933 what was the Nazi party proclaimed as?

Answer 29

The only legal political party in Germany

Question 30

When was the nazi party proclaimed as the only legal political party in germany?

Answer 30

14th July 1933

Question 31

By 1934 what had developed between Nazi leaders and the SA?

Answer 31

Tensions because they wanted to Nazify elites, the church and the army

Question 32

Why did hitler need the elites?

Answer 32

For their money, because what he wanted to do was go to war and he couldn’t go to war without money