Nazi Consolidation of Power and Propaganda in Germany

2. 100 When did the Wall Street Crash occur?

3. ANSWER 1929

4. 200 • How many Germans were unemployed in 1933?

5. ANSWER • 6 million

6. 300 • What was ‘autarky’?

7. ANSWER • Making Germany self-sufficient.

8. 400 • Name two ways that the Nazis reduced unemployment

9. ANSWER You could have: • The RAD • Rearmament • The ‘Beauty of work’ plan • KDF (Strength through Joy) • The fact that many Jews and women were sacked from their jobs (these people were not recorded in data)

10. 500 For 250 points each what was: • The New Plan • The Four Year plan Must have a brief description of what they were, when they were and whether or not they worked.

11. ANSWER • The New Plan 1934 stopped imports and subsidised industry – it tried to achieve ‘autarky’. Production of oil, steel, coal and explosives rose. • The Four Year Plan 1936 was run by Goering – this aimed to prepare the armed forces and industry for war in four years.

12. 100 • When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?

13. ANSWER • 1933

14. 200 What event (in 1933) did Hitler and the Nazis use to help consolidate power in the following ways: • He blamed the Communists and used it to imprison many Communist leaders • It allowed Hitler to stir up the feeling that the country was in danger from the Communists

15. ANSWER • Reichstag fire

16. 300 • What was the Enabling Act and when was it passed?

17. ANSWER • March 1933 • Hitler gets the right to make his own laws without going to the Reichstag.

18. 400 • What was the ‘Night of the Long Knives’ and how did it help Hitler consolidate power?

19. ANSWER • 30 June 1934 – 400 members of the SA were murdered, including Rohm who was leading it. • This destroyed all opposition within the Nazi Party itself. It gave power to the SS (Hitler’s elite bodyguards, who later ran the concentration camps) who killed members of the SA because they wanted to carry out a Socialist agenda.

20. 500 • What was the ‘Concordat’ (200) and why was it significant? (300)

21. ANSWER • The concordat was an agreement with the Pope who sees Hitler as someone that can destroy Communism. It means that Hitler can take over political power in Germany as long as he leaves the Catholic Church alone. • This was significant because it meant Hitler could ban the Catholic Zentrum party without opposition from the Catholic Church.

22. 100 • What was the Hitler Youth?

23. ANSWER • The Hitler Youth was an organisation for German children – boys were taught athletics and prepared for war, girls were taught how to sew and cook.

24. 200 • What was the three main roles that women had in the Nazi state?

25. ANSWER • To go to church • To have children • To cook and clean for their family

26. 300 • Who was Martin Niemöller and why is he significant?

27. ANSWER • An anti-Nazi Protestant pastor who actively and openly opposed the Nazis. He was sent to a concentration camp and killed. He also wrote the poem ‘First they came...’

28. 400 • What was ‘Eugenics’ and where was it taught?

29. ANSWER • It was a subject taught in schools, that concentrated around the subject of ‘superior genes’. This mainly focused around the school of thought that the Aryan race was superior.

30. 500 • Name the five ways that the Nazis controlled people through terror

31. ANSWER • SS and Gestapo investigations • Blockleiters in each block of flats and street informed on ‘grumblers’ (people that said anything negative about the Nazis) • Arrests of thousands of people terrified opponents and created an atmosphere of fear • Set up Nazi people’s courts • Concentration camps

32. 100 • What does this mean and what is its message?

33. ANSWER • ‘Our Last Hope: Hitler’ • It was aimed at the unemployed working class men who were told that Hitler was their last hope for a job, for money, for a better Germany.

34. 200 • Why was the 1936 Berlin Olympics a propaganda success? What are the ways that it was seen in a negative light

35. ANSWER • It showed the Germans to be well-organised and prosperous. Everything ran efficiently and smoothly, and most people praised Hitler and the Nazis for organising such a well-run event. • The main negative comment was the fact that Hitler refused to shake Jesse Owens’ hand. • Several Jewish athletes who won gold medals for Germany were later killed in concentration camps.

36. 300 • Name three messages that the Nazis spread through propaganda

37. ANSWER • Aryan family was the aspiration • Aryan women should stay at home and have babies • Jews were untrustworthy, vermin, predators, the reason for Germany losing WW1 • Hitler was Germany’s saviour

38. 400 • How did the Nazis use radio to spread propaganda? (There are two parts to this answer)

39. ANSWER • They sold them cheaply so that by 1942 70% of Germans owned a radio • Radio was controlled so that only Nazi political messages were broadcast • This was another way of spreading anti-Jewish messages

40. 500 • What was ‘The Eternal Jew’ a title for?

41. ANSWER • An anti-Jewish art exhibition; this showed the works of Jewish artists in a derogatory way, it was advertised as a ‘degenerate-art’ exhibition.

42. 100 What was Kristallnacht?

43. ANSWER • It was the organised attack on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues • It was organised by the government – police were instructed to stand back and let it happen but told not to hurt any people. 90 Jews were killed.

44. 200 • What was the Sterilisation programme?

45. ANSWER • This was the systematic sterilisation of mentally ill, physically disabled men and women, criminals, beggars and alcoholics. Any group that was regarded as ‘sub-human’.

46. 300 What was the ‘Final Solution’? Where were the three main places this was carried out?

47. ANSWER • The decision to systematically murder all the Jews in Europe. The main death camps were at Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor.

48. 400 • Name four anti-Jewish laws passed between 1935 and 1940

49. ANSWER You could have: • 1935: Jews no longer German citizens • 1938: Jews could no longer be doctors • 1938: Jews had to add the name Israel (men) or Sarah (women) to their names • 1938: Jewish children forbidden to go to school • 1939: Jews forbidden to own a business, or own a radio • 1939: Jews forced to live in Ghettos

50. 500 • What was the Nazi racial policy?