1) What kind of leader did Hitler plan to be?

Dictator!

2) Was Hitler President or Chancellor? Who was the only man in Germany more powerful than him?

Hitler = Chancellor

Hindenburg = President, i.e.more powerful than Hitler!

3) What happened in February 1933?

The Reichstag Fire!

4) Which party was banned as a result?

Communist Party was banned

5) What was the Enabling Law?

This law gave Hitler the power topass laws without going throughthe Reichstag (parliament) or thePresident. This would place allpower in his hands!

6) What happened to all of Germany’s trade unions in May 1933?

Trade Unions were banned and unionleaders were arrested.

6) Which Nazi-controlled organisation replaced trade unions?

The GermanLabour Front

(DAF)

7) What else was banned in 1933?

All political parties!

8) Who was the leader of the SA/Brownshirts?

Rohm

9) What was the event when all the leaders of the SA were murdered, and in which year did it happen?

The Night of the Long Knives!

1934

10) What did Hitler do when Hindenburg died in 1934, and what title beginning with “F” did he give himself?

Hitler made himself President as well asChancellor

He called himself the Fuhrer (supremeleader)

11) How did the army now show their loyalty to Hitler?The army took an oath ofpersonal loyalty toHitler.

Hitler was now SupremeCommanderof the Armed Forces.

12) What was the name of Hitler’s personal protection squad that was about to get much more powerful?

The SS (Schutzstaffel)

13) Give another name for the SS.

Blackshirts

14) Who was its leader?

Himmler

15) Name one of their key roles in Nazi Germany.

Sent lots of peoplethe Nazis didn’t liketo concentrationcamps

16) List 3 groups of people who were sent to concentration camps.

Jewish people

The mentally ill or disabled

Homosexuals

17) What was the name of the secret state police?

Gestapo

18) In what situation could they arrest people?

Arrest people without trial

19) Why did the opponents of the Nazis never get a fair trial?

Because thejudges were Nazi!

20) Which other group of people did the Nazis use to spy on people?

Informers

21) Who was in charge of propaganda for the Nazis?

Goebbels

22) What is the word for the way in which the Nazis controlled everything the newspapers could and couldn’t say?

Censorship

23) Where did the Nazis hold their main annual rally

Nuremberg

24) What kind of messages were they trying to send out at these massive rallies?

That the Nazis were all-powerful, in control and

they were going to make the future ofGermany great again.

They wanted to demonstrate that they could bring ORDER out of chaos!

25) Which piece of new technology did the Nazis exploit to spread their message into most German homes?

Radio

26) By 1939 what proportion of Germans owned this new technology?

70%

27) Give an example of a specific Nazi propaganda film.

“TheEternal Jew”

28) Give one example of History being written by the Nazis.

That Jews were to blame for losing Germany

WWI

29) Which type of music did the Nazis ban and why? [2]

Jazz, because it was “black people’s music”

30) What was Germany’s key economic problem in 1933?

Unemployment!

31) Name two things the Nazis did to solve this.

1) Huge building programme – autobahns, schools, hospitals, houses…

2) Removed Jews & women from the unemployment register

32) How successful were their policies, i.e. how many unemployed were there by 1939?

None, the Nazis had “solved”

unemployment

33) What is the word for forcing all young men aged 18-25 to join the army?

Conscription!

34) Which Treaty banned this?

Treaty of Versailles!!

35) What was the aim of the Office of the Four Year Plan?

To make Germany ready for war within 4 YEARS

36) Who was in charge of it?

Goering

37) One of his aims was to make Germany self-sufficient. What does this mean?

Making Germany non-reliant on

imports

38) What question did he famously ask the German people?

“Would you rather have guns or butter?”

39) What is another term for “persecution of the Jews?”

Holocaust

40) Even before the Nazis came to power they were blaming the Jews for Germany’s problems. Name one of the problems the Nazis blamed them for.

The humiliatingTreaty of Versailles

41) Which anti-Jewish event did the Nazis organise in 1933?

Burning of Jewish books

42) What was the name of the anti-Jewish laws introduced in 1935?

Nuremberg Laws

"I am the greatest pig in town - I have affairs with Jews only."

43) Name two rights which these laws of 1935 took away from Jews.

1. Jews and Aryans could not marry or have sexual intercourse

2. Jews were deprived of their German citizenship (they did not have “German blood”)

44) What happened on the “Night of Broken Glass,” and when did it take place?Jewish homes, shopsand businesses wereattacked and destroyed,leaving the streetscovered in smashedwindows. Afterwardslots of Jews were taken toConcentration camps.

NOVEMBER 1938

45) What was the so-called “Final Solution,” and when did the Nazis decide on it?

Final Solution = the decisionto exterminate the Jewishrace

1942

46) The Nazis tried to brainwash young people into supporting them – what is another word for brainwashing?

Indoctrination

47) What was the name of the Nazi Youth organisation?

Hitler Youth

48) In which year was membership made compulsory, i.e. were all young people forced to join this?

1935

49) List two different activities boys did in the Hitler Youth, and explain why they did them. [2]

1. Jump out of a first floor window wearing full combat gear. This would train them for the dangerous activities in the army

2. Listen to Nazi ideas. This would help them to become indoctrinated with Nazi ideals.

50) What was the equivalent of the Hitler Youth for girls?

League of German Maidens

51) List two different activities girls did in this organisation, and explain why they did them. [2]

• Learn how to cook. This would help them to become good Aryan housewives to their husbands.

• Encouraged to have babies. This would help them produce a new generation of Aryans that Hitler could put in his army.

52) Schools were also important to the Nazis. What did teachers have to do if they wanted to carry on teaching?

• Teachers had to agree to teach the Nazi ideas otherwise they

were sacked

53) Give an example of how lessons changed under the Nazis.

In Biology students were taught the ideas of Nazi

racial policy. For example, the idea of Aryan

superiority.

54) Name two groups of young people that

opposed the Nazis.

1.The White Rose2.The Edelweiss Pirates

55) Which 3 Ks sum up Nazi policies towards women, and what do they mean in English? [2]

•Kinder, Kirche, Kuche

•Children, Church, Cooking

56) Which of all the above was a woman’s most important job according to the Nazis?

Having lots of healthy Aryan children

57) Why were boys needed in particular by Germany?

To become a new generation of soldiers for Hitler’s army

58) Name one scheme the government introduced to encourage more

marriages.

• Marriage loans. • The more children they had, the less they had

to pay back

59) Explain how the medal system worked for mothers.

Medals were awarded for having children. Gold for eight, silver for six, bronze for four.

60) What were Mothers’ Schools?

Places where women were trained how to

be a good Nazi mother.

61) What did the Nazis tell childless couples to do?

They were encouraged to

divorce

62) What happened to women doctors, civil servants and teachers in Nazi Germany?

They were sacked and replaced by

men

63) How were women supposed to look in Nazi Germany?

• They had to wear simple clothes. No trousers, dyed hair or high heels were allowed. Make up was frowned upon.

• They needed to be strong and solid to have lots of children.

64) What had the Nazis banned in 1933 to make sure there was very little opposition? [2]

1.Other political parties

2.Trade Unions

65) Where were people sent if they criticised the Nazis?

Concentration Camps

66) What proportion of Communist party members were arrested by the Nazis?

Two thirds

67) What was the name of the Nazi Church that was set up?

Reich Church

68) What event in 1938 did the Church not criticise?

• Reichskristallnacht• The Night of Broken Glass

69) Name one famous priest who did have the courage to speak out against the Nazis

Dietrich Bonhoffer

70) Which event in 1934 meant that the army was very grateful to Hitler?

The Night of the Long knives.

• This was when Hitler eliminated opposition from the SA.

71) In which year was there a famous army bomb plot to murder Hitler?

1944(July)

72) Why was opposition from young people so worrying to the Nazis?

Because they were the most important generation to Hitler.

He wanted them to continue his Reich by being soldiers and

mothers.

73) What was the full name of this opposition group – ‘the ________ Pirates’?

Edelweiss

74) What kind of things did they do to oppose the Nazis? [2]

•Avoided Hitler Youth meetings and had fun.

•They listened to American music and wore fashionable

clothes

75) What did one group of them do in Cologne in 1944?

Killed a Hitler Youth leader.

(They were hanged in revenge.)

76) What was the name of the student opposition group in Munich?

The White Rose

(They spread anti-Nazi messages through leaflets, posters and graffiti.)