year 10 eoy key topic 3: nazi control and dictatorship 1933-1939

Question 1

when were the police forces ordered to cooperate with SS and SA?

Answer 1

17th february 1933

Question 2

when did the reichstag fire happen?

Answer 2

27th february 1933

Question 3

how many communists and other nazi opponents were arrested on the night of the reichstag fire?

Answer 3

4000

Question 4

when was the emergency decree issued and what was it?

Answer 4

28th february 1933. it was issued by hindenburg at hitlers request. it allowed police to arrest suspects and hold them without trial and hitler to take other regional govs

Question 5

what day was the reichstag elections, what did the gov do, and what % did nazis win?

Answer 5

5th march 1933, the gov used control of radio and police to intimidate opponents, and they had the slogan ‘the battle against marxism’. the nazis won 52%

Question 6

when was the entire media controlled?

Answer 6

13th march 1933

Question 7

when was the enabling act passed and what was it?

Answer 7

23rd march 1933, it allowed hitler to pass decrees without the president’s involvement; made hitler a legal dictator

Question 8

when was the civil service and education purged?

Answer 8

7th of april 1933, jewish people and other nazi opponents were removed

Question 9

when were trade unions banned?

Answer 9

2nd may 1933

Question 10

when was the law that made germany a one party state (no formation of new parties) passed?

Answer 10

14th July 1933

Question 11

when were all state govs taken over?

Answer 11

january 1934

Question 12

when was the night of long knives?

Answer 12

29/30th june 1934

Question 13

when did hindenburg die?

Answer 13

2nd august 1934

Question 14

who was blamed for the reichstag fire?

Answer 14

marinus van der lubbe (a young dutchman and commie)

Question 15

how many deaths did the reichstag elections cause?

Answer 15

70

Question 16

what did the enabling act trigger?

Answer 16

the end of the weimar republic, a 6 month period of change, known as the nazi revolution

Question 17

how many men were executed on charges of treason after the night of the long knives?

Answer 17

77

Question 18

what happened to ernst rohm after the night of long knives?

Answer 18

he was shot

Question 19

who led the ss?

Answer 19

heinrich himmler

Question 20

when was a public vote held to see wether hitler would become fuhrer?

Answer 20

19th august, 90% voted in favour

Question 21

what is a police state?

Answer 21

when a gov uses the police to control everyone’s life

Question 22

who did the nazis use to control the germans?

Answer 22

the SS, SD, and gestapo

Question 23

when was the SS set up?

Answer 23

1925

Question 24

what kind of uniforms did the SS wear?

Answer 24

black uniforms

Question 25

what did the SS control?

Answer 25

all germany's police and security forces

Question 26

could the SS act outside the law?

Answer 26

yes

Question 27

what kind of wives did the members of the SS have to marry?

Answer 27

racially pure wives

Question 28

who ran the concentration camps?

Answer 28

the SS

Question 29

how many men were in the SS?

Answer 29

240,000

Question 30

what was the SD?

Answer 30

the security force

Question 31

who set up the SD?

Answer 31

heinrich himmler

Question 32

when was the SD set up?

Answer 32

1931

Question 33

who was appointed leader of the SD?

Answer 33

reynhard heydrich

Question 34

what did the sd do?

Answer 34

spy on all opponents of the nazis at home or abroad

Question 35

when was the gestapo set up?

Answer 35

1933

Question 36

who was the gestapo set up by?

Answer 36

goering

Question 37

who was the gestapo led by?

Answer 37

reynhard heydrich

Question 38

what did the gestapo do?

Answer 38

persecuted people for speaking out against nazis, sent people to concentration camps and used torture

Question 39

where was the first concentration camp built?

Answer 39

Dachau

Question 40

when was the first concentration camp built?

Answer 40

1933

Question 41

who was sent to concentration camps?

Answer 41

political prisoners, undesirables, prostitutes, and homosexuals

Question 42

what happened to the inmates in the concentration camps?

Answer 42

treated badly and forced to do hard labour

Question 43

what did all judges have to belong to?

Answer 43

the national socialist league for the maintenance of the law

Question 44

what was the people's court for?

Answer 44

to hear all treason cases. trials were held in secret and the judges were hand picked

Question 45

what was germany becoming thanks to the nazis?

Answer 45

a totalitarian state

Question 46

what percentage of germans had a radio by 1939?

Answer 46

70%

Question 47

how many loudspeakers where placed in bars and streets for those without radio

Answer 47

6000

Question 48

what would be played through the radio?

Answer 48

hitlers (and other important nazi politicians) speeches

Question 49

what kind of music was banned?

Answer 49

jazz

Question 50

what did musicians have to be a members of?

Answer 50

the reich chamber of culture

Question 51

what was okay to listen to?

Answer 51

folk songs and classical music

Question 52

who's permission did they need to publish books?

Answer 52

goebbels

Question 53

when was the olympics in germany?

Answer 53

1936

Question 54

what did rallies do?

Answer 54

gave a sense of belonging, show of power and the sense that every german supported the nazis

Question 55

what happened to anti-nazi newspapers?

Answer 55

shut down

Question 56

how many daily newspapers were there by 1944?

Answer 56

only 1000

Question 57

what did some nazi newspapers do to those who cancelled their subscription?

Answer 57

they threatened them

Question 58

what happened to all european and exterior films?

Answer 58

they were censored

Question 59

what is the difference between resistance and opposition?

Answer 59

resistance - refusing to support something opposition - actively working against something to remove it

Question 60

why did the church leaders oppose the nazis?

Answer 60

the protestant church was agains hitlers reich church the catholic church was against the euthanasia campaign

Question 61

what action did the church leaders take against the nazis?

Answer 61

they formed an alternate 'confessional church' campaigned against the euthanasia programme the pope wrote a letter with 'burning concern'

Question 62

what action did the nazis take against the church's opposition?

Answer 62

niemoller was put into a concentration camp, and hitler ordered his death but he survived the campaign was successful because the nazis didn't want to make the von galen (catholic church priest) a martyr, but 3 other catholic priests who distributed his leaflets were executed

Question 63

who were the edelweiss pirates?

Answer 63

working class boys and girls who opposed the nazi regime

Question 64

what action did the edelweiss pirates take?

Answer 64

they sand songs like the hitler youth but with different lyrics to mock the nazis, they would taunt and attack hitler youth members, they had boys and girls with freer attitudes to sex, they daubed anti-nazi slogans m, sheltered deserters, and beat up nazi officials. in 1944 the edelweiss pirates from cologne killed the gestapo chief

Question 65

what did the nazis do against the edelweiss pirates?

Answer 65

publicly hung 12 of them

Question 66

who were the swing youth?

Answer 66

they were middle class youths who rejected nazi values, drank alcohol, and listened to jazz

Question 67

what did the swing youth do in opposition to the nazis?

Answer 67

they work english style clothes, the girls wore make up, and they would use the common greeting of 'heil benny'

Question 68

who were the white rose movement?

Answer 68

they were against the slaughter of Jewish people and Polish people. munich university students led by Hans and Sophie Scholl distributed anti-nazi leaflets. they called for an end to the war, and an end to the atrocities agains jewish people, and a united europe