Weimar vs Nazi instiutions

Question 1

Ebert-Groener Pact in 1918

Answer 1

Army was guaranteed substantial independence

Question 2

Oath 1934

Answer 2

Military had to declare an oath to Hitler

Question 3

What happened if people opposed Hitler

Answer 3

Senior figures in the military that opposed the Nazis, such as Von Schleicher, were killed during the Night of the Long Knives

Question 4

How did Hitler undermine exisiting insitutions

Answer 4

Nazis deliberately attempted to undermine the influence of the Wehermacht with the establishment of Himmler’s SS

Question 5

When did Weimar government did occasionally circumvent its own institutions

Answer 5

Freikorps units to put down the Ruhr Uprising in 1920 (only exceptions)

Question 6

Nazi Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service

Answer 6

removal of staff who were considered opposed to the Reich

Question 7

Peoples’ Courts - Nazi

Answer 7

These courts were led by Nazi-appointed judges and allowed the party to ensure control over what they deemed to be ‘political crimes

Question 8

Weimar right bias

Answer 8

lenient sentencing following the Munich Putsch