Weimar Republic (Ethnic minorities in the Weimar Republic)

Question 1

How many Jewish people held cabinet posts in the Weimar Republic?

Answer 1

Five

Question 2

What article of the Constitution stated that minority populations could use their home language & preserve their national identity?

Answer 2

Article 113

Question 3

Name the Jewish Foreign Minister who was assassinated in 1922.

Answer 3

Walter Rathenau

Question 4

Name an anti-Semitic organisation which was banned in 1923?

Answer 4

The German Peoples Offensive and Defensive Alliance (1919: 25,000 members  1923: 170,000)

Question 5

Name a Jewish organisation which was set up to fight anti-Semitism.

Answer 5

The Reich Federation of Jewish Front Soldiers

Question 6

In what context did people begin to turn to extremist parties with anti-Semitic messages (e.g. the NSDAP)?

Answer 6

In the context of economic crisis (e.g. the depression)

Question 7

Name a Länder that passed legislation against Gypsy populations to control their movement.

Answer 7

Bavaria (1926) (1927: Gypsies also had to carry identity cards)

Question 8

Name two other minority populations who faced hostility in Germany.

Answer 8

• Poles (who had fought Germany in the war)

* Black people (associated with French colonial army units who occupied the Ruhr)

Question 9

How many Poles left Germany between 1925 and 1933?

Answer 9

30,000