THE NAZI DICTATORSHIP

Question 1

Which law combined the posts of president and chancellor?

Answer 1

Aug 1934 Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich

Question 2

How was Hitler’s character perpetuated by propaganda?

Answer 2

Presented as a charismatic character, hid his lazy and disorganised side

Question 3

What was the role of the Reich chancellery?

Answer 3

Co-ordianting government

Question 4

What was set up to try political offences without a jury?

Answer 4

1933 Special Courts

Question 5

What was set up to try cases of high treason?

Answer 5

1934 People’s Court- jury of only Nazis

Question 6

Anyone applying to be a judge…

Answer 6

had to have National Socialist values

Question 7

How did Hitler ensure there was discipline within the party?

Answer 7

The Department for Internal Party Affairs

Question 8

Who was chief of German police?

Answer 8

Himmler

Question 9

How did the police state control opposition?

Answer 9

Deaths Head Units

Question 10

How many were in the Waffen SS by 1938?

Answer 10

14,000

Question 11

Weaknesses of the police state (2)

Answer 11

Relied on informants

Cultivated by propaganda

Question 12

By 1939, how many German homes had a radio?

Answer 12

70%

Question 13

What proportion of the press was owned by the Nazis?

Answer 13

2/3

Question 14

The Berlin Olympics as propaganda

Answer 14

Glorify the regime

Spread Nazi ideological themes

Question 15

Nazi rituals as propaganda

Answer 15

eg 9 November (Munich Putsch) celebrated as a national holiday

Question 16

How many German writers left Germany?

Answer 16

2500

Question 17

Why did the army support Hitler? (3)

Answer 17

Night of the Long Knives
Rearmanent programme
March 1935 conscription reintroduced

Question 18

Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis

Answer 18

Allowed Hitler to take over leading the army

Question 19

What did Hitler exploit to take control himself over the army?

Answer 19

Blomberg-Fritch Crisis

Question 20

Schacht’s policy banking

Answer 20

Set lower interest rates

Rescheduled large debts

Question 21

Schacht’s policy farming

Answer 21

Put tariffs on imported goods to help German farmers

Question 22

Reich Entailed Farm Law

Answer 22

More security in land ownership

Question 23

What law was made to reduce unemployment?

Answer 23

June 1933 Law to Reduce Unemployment

Question 24

What was the German Labour Service set up called?

Answer 24

RAD (Reich Labour Service), 1935

Question 25

Schacht’s public works schemes

Answer 25

Reforestation, motorisation

Question 26

What did Schacht’s New Plan (1934) entail?

Answer 26

Needed to prevent excessive imports- control over trade, tariffs, capital and currency

Question 27

What did Schacht do in terms of imports?

Answer 27

Cut imports that weren’t necessary eg cotton, but kept importing things needed for heavy industry eg metal

Question 28

Unemployment by 1936 (after New Plan)

Answer 28

1.5 million

Question 29

1936 industrial production levels (after New Plan)

Answer 29

60%

Question 30

Aims of the Four Year Plan (5)

Answer 30

1. Regulate imports and exports
2. Control sectors of labour force to prevent inflation
3. Increase production of raw materials
4. Ersatz (substitute) products
5. Increase agricultural production

Question 31

Successes of the Four Year Plan

Answer 31

Succeeded in reducing imported goods

Question 32

Failures of the Four Year Plan

Answer 32

No long term impact- when war broke out, Germany was importing 2/3 of its products

Question 33

Nazi economic recovery banking

Answer 33

Set lower interest rates and rescheduled large debts

Question 34

What was created to destabilise churches?

Answer 34

The Ministry of Church Affairs (1935)