The Nazi Dictatorship 1933-1939

Question 1

Who was effectively banned after the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 1

The KPD

Question 2

Who was outlawed as a ‘party hostile to the nation and state’ in June 1933?

Answer 2

The SPD

Question 3

Which parties dissolved themselves, one in June and one in July 1933?

Answer 3

DNVP

Centre Party

Question 4

What law in July 1933 outlawed non Nazi political parties?

Answer 4

The Law against The Formation of New Parties

Question 5

Who were aristocratic, anti democratic, and believed that the Nazi regime would continue to let them serve like before?

Answer 5

The Civil Service

Question 6

Who did the Nazis fear were an obstacle to power and forced local officials to resign as well as placing party officials in Government?

Answer 6

The Civil Service

Question 7

Who were uncontrolled, unorganised, and believed the Nazi revolution should continue with violence until they recieved a second revolution?

Answer 7

SA

Question 8

Who began stopping army convoys and weapons and were considered a serious threat by the army?

Answer 8

SA

Question 9

Who made a major speech in the press where they called for an end to Nazi terror?

Answer 9

Papen

Question 10

How many people were executed in the Night of Long Knives on the 30th June 1934 including Ernst Rohm?

Answer 10

84 `

Question 11

What did Hitler call himself in the aftermath of the Night of the Long Knives?

Answer 11

‘supreme judge’

Question 12

What did the Night of the Long Knives ensure?

Answer 12

Army supported Nazis and would let Hitler succeed Hindenburg

Question 13

Who died on 2nd August 1934?

Answer 13

Hindenburg

Question 14

How many people voted for Hitler to become Fuhrer on the 19th August 1934?

Answer 14

89.9%!!

Question 15

What were the SS in control of by 1936?

Answer 15

Identification and arrest of political prisoners
Third Reich Police system
Concentration camps

Question 16

Who were deliberately brutalized, strictly disciplined and racially pure?

Answer 16

SS

Question 17

Who was in control of the SS and had constant rivalry with the other members of Hitler’s inner circle?

Answer 17

Himmler

Question 18

What were the SD and what did they monitor after 1933?

Answer 18

Security service of the Nazis

Monitored public opinion

Question 19

How many members did the SD have by 1939 which showed how important they were and how successful Heydrich was?

Answer 19

50,000

Question 20

What did the SD overlap with?

Answer 20

The Gestapo

Question 21

How many members did the Gestapo actually have despite German beliefs that it was ‘all knowing’?

Answer 21

20,000

Question 22

What did the Gestapo rely on?

Answer 22

Informants

Question 23

What League created the front of German Law in April 1933 that made clear to lawyers etc that they had to do the bidding of the Nazi regime?

Answer 23

League of Nationalist Socialist Lawyers

Question 24

What courts created by the Nazis had 3 Nazi judges alongside 2 professional ones and had no juries, defendants or right of appeal?

Answer 24

Special Courts and People’s Court

Question 25

How many people were tried in the people’s court?

Answer 25

3400

Question 26

Which two political groups were forced to go underground?

Answer 26

The SPD and the KPD

Question 27

Who smuggled propaganda pamphlets across from Czech?

Answer 27

The SPD

Question 28

What networks were broken up by the Gestapo?

Answer 28

KPD

Question 29

How many strikes were reported in the Rhineland-Westphalia in September 1935?

Answer 29

37

Question 30

How many workers who participated in strikes out of 25,000 in 1935 spent short time in prison?

Answer 30

4000

Question 31

How many Protestant Pastors had been imprisoned by 1937?

Answer 31

Over 700

Question 32

Who issued a papal encyical ‘with burning grief’ in 1937 that criticised Nazi hatred upon the Church but was the only time the Catholic Church opposed the Nazis?

Answer 32

The Pope

Question 33

Who didn’t attend weekly parades and hummed banned tunes?

Answer 33

Young people

Question 34

Who formed cliques or gangs to show their independence?

Answer 34

Young people

Question 35

What were Hitler’s aims leading up to the war?

Answer 35

Recovery from depression

Reduction of unemployment

Question 36

What are some ways Schact stimulated the economy?

Answer 36

Built homes and autobahns
Tax concessions and grants
Subsidies to private firms 
controls on wages and prices to control inflation
'New Plan'
the mefo bills

Question 37

What did the Nazis call their plan to reduce unemployment?

Answer 37

‘battle for work’

Question 38

What were large sums of money spent on under Schact?

Answer 38

Building roads

Public buildings

Question 39

What was formed in 1935 under which unemployed young men had to do 6 months labour in farming or construction?

Answer 39

Reich Labour Service

Question 40

When was military conscription introduced?

Answer 40

1935

Question 41

What plan in 1934 placed controls on imports and access to foreign policy?

Answer 41

The New Plan

Question 42

Which scheme made the Government pay for equipment using credit notes that could be exchanged for cash at the Reichsbank?

Answer 42

Mefo bills