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- 1Dates in Weimar Germany - In what year? 1. The Spartacist revolt and murder of Rosa Luxemburg 2. The Murder of Walter Rathenau 3. The economic ‘Golden Years’ of the Weimar Republic 4. The years that Weimar democracy existed between 5. The Barmat ScandalAnswers
1. 1919
2. 1922
3. 1924-29
4. 1919-33
5. 1925 - 2Dates in Weimar Germany - In what year? 1. Fritz Lang released Metropolis 2. The Munich Putsch 3. Hyper- inflation began 4. The Wall Street Crash 5. Mein Kampf publishedAnswers
1. 1926
2. 1923
3. 1923
4. 1929
5. 1925 - 3Famous German Jews - What did the following German Jews make their reputation in? 1. Theodor Wolff 2. Walter Rathenau 3. Rosa Luxemburg 4. Max Alsberg 5. The Rothschild familyAnswers
1. Journalism
2. Politics
3. Leader of the Spartacist Revolt -Politics
4. Law
5. Banking - 4Famous German Jews - What did the following German Jews make their reputation in? 1. Erich Mendelsohn 2. Max Reinhardt 3. Fritz Lang 4. Max Liebermann 5. Hugo PreussAnswers
1. Architecture
2. Theatre
3. Cinema
4. Art
5. Politics - 5The Numbers – Key statistics during Weimar 1. % of mixed marriages by 1927 2. Approx. number of lapsed Jews during the year 1927 3. % of Nobel prizes awarded to Germans by 1938 who were Jews 4. % of private banks owned by Jews in the 20s 5. % of Jews as a proportion of the overall population of GermanyAnswers
1. 54%
2. 1,000
3. 24%
4. 50%
5. 1% - 6The Numbers – Key statistics during Weimar 1. % of all lawyers in Germany who were Jews in the 20s 2. % of all doctors in Germany who were Jews in the 20s 3. % of doctors in Berlin who were Jews in the 20s 4. % of German Jews who were urban based 5. Of the 400,000 German Jews, how many were ‘Pollacks’ or poorer eastern JewsAnswers
1. 16%
2. 11%
3. 50%
4. 80%
5. 75,000 - 7Key concepts - The Name given to: 1. Poorer eastern Jews 2. The process of becoming less religious in outlook 3. The association that Nazis made with Jewish art and culture 4. A German Jew of extreme religious faith 5. The large impact that a relatively small number of Jews made upon Germany as a wholeAnswers
1. ‘Pollacks’
2. Secularisation
3. Decadence/corruption
4. Zionist/ultra-Orthodox
5. Disproportionate - 8Key concepts - The Name given to: 1. The group of far right anti-Semites who fought on the streets of Germany in the early 20s 2. The integration of German Jews into society 3. The place where some Jews wanted to move to in order to create a homeland 4. The process of German currency becoming worthless 5. The process of exceptionally talented Jews leaving Germany to work successfully in other countriesAnswers
1. Freikorps
2. Assimilation
3. Palestine
4. Hyper-inflation
5. Brain drain - 9Elections in Weimar Germany 1. The number of seats the Nazis acquired in the Jan 1919 election 2. The number of seats the Nazis acquired in the 1928 election 3. The number of seats the Nazis acquired in the 1930 election 4. The what biggest party did the 1930 election make the Nazis? 5. The month and year the Nazi party became the biggest in the Reichstag for the first timeAnswers
1. 0, they did not exist
2. 12
3. 107
4. 2nd
5. July 32 - 10Elections in Weimar Germany 1.The approx. number of votes Nazi support fell by between July and Nov 1932 2.The month and year of the last Weimar election 3.The % of the vote the Nazis gained in that election 4.The month and year Hitler stood for the presidential election 5.The position Hitler came in that electionAnswers
1. 2 million
2. March 33
3. 44%
4. April 32
5. 2nd - 11Hitler’s Germany - Month and year 1. Potsdam day 2. Night of the Long Knives 3. Hitler appointed Chancellor 4. The Burning of the Books 5. The boycott of shopsAnswers
1. March 33
2. June 34
3. Jan 33
4. May 33
5. April 33 - 12Hitler’s Germany - Month and year 1. The Civil Service laws 2. SA membership reached 400,000 3. Death of Hindenburg, 4. Hitler became Fuhrer 5. Dachau openedAnswers
1. April 33
2. Dec 32
3. Aug 34
4. Aug 34
5. March 33 - 13Nazi who’s who 1. Leader of the SA murdered in 1934 2. Nazi propaganda minister responsible for the burning of the books and Kristallnacht 3. Editor of Der Sturmer 4. Reichsfuhrer SS from 1929 onwards 5. Arranged the Wannsee conferenceAnswers
1. Ernst Rohm
2. Joseph Goebbels
3. Julius Streicher
4. Heinrich Himmler
5. Adolf Eichmann - 14Nazi who’s who 1. 2nd in command within the SS and Reichsprotector of Bohemia and Moravia 2. Gauleiter of Warthegau in Western Poland, rounded up Jews there to deport them to the General Government 3. Architect of the Aktion T4 euthanasia programme 4. Responsible for administering the area known as the General Government 5. Leader of Einsatzgrupppen A and responsible for mass murder in Latvia, EstoniaAnswers
1. Reinhardt Heydrich
2. Arthur Greiser
3. Phillip Bouler
4. Hans Frank
5. Walther Stahlecker - 15Nazi Terror in the 30s 1. Month and year Dachau opened 2. Which City is Dachau on the outskirts of? 3. What is significant about this city? 4. Name given to the SS military force that guarded the camps 5. What is the translation of Kristallnacht?Answers
1. March 1933
2. Munich
3. Home of the NSDAP, where the party was founded
4. Death Head’s units
5. Night of the broken glass - 16Nazi Terror in the 30s 1. What was Kristallnacht said to be in retaliation for? 2. What was the process of ‘dejewifying’ German businesses known as? 3. What did the ‘Decree for the Restoration of the Street Scene’ do to the Jewish community in 1938? 4. What was significant about Hitler’s speech to the Reichstag in Jan 1939? 5. What is internal exile?Answers
1. Murder of German diplomat in Paris (Von Rath) by a Jew
2. Aryanisation
3. Had to pay for the damage caused during Kristallnacht
4. Predicted that if there was a war then the Jews would be destroyed
5. Mental process of switching off from Nazi policy in a passive, private way - 17Discrimination 1. The theory that a race of people can be improved through selective breeding is known as? 2. The anti-Semitic exhibition which took place in Munich was known as? 3. The Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Progeny did what? 4. The Nazi goal was to make Germany ‘Judenfrei’ what does this mean? 5. What was the peak year for Jewish emigration from Germany?Answers
1. Eugenics
2. The eternal Jew
3. Allowed sterilisation to occur
4. Jew free
5. 1939 - 18Discrimination 1. What unusual thing occurred regarding Jewish emigration in 1937? 2. Where did the Nazis encourage the Zionists to emigrate to? 3. Why were Nazi policies on emigration contradictory? 4. What was the name given to the organisation of accepting Jewish children into Britain who were fleeing the Nazis? 5. Name the most prominent German Jewish scientist who emigrated during this periodAnswers
1. It went down from the previous year
2. Palestine
3. Because they wanted to encourage them to leave yet seizing their assets
made this less likely
4. Kindertransport
5. Albert Einstein - 19Propaganda 1. What was Goebbels’ official title, Minister for…? 2. Boys were indoctrinated through the Hitler Youth, what was the equivalent for girls? 3. What was the title of the most anti-Semitic of all German newspapers? 4. What was the body established to coordinate German cultural life called? 5. What law was passed in order to censor the press in 1933?Answers
1. Propaganda and Public Enlightenment
2. League of German Maidens
3. Der Sturmer
4. Reich Chamber of Culture
5. Reich Press Law 1933 - 20Propaganda 1. How did the Nazis ensure that the ‘people’s radio’ was found in most German homes? 2. By 1939 what % of homes had one? 3. What type of music was banned from the airwaves 4. Name any German film with a propaganda message from the 30s 5. Name Hitler’s favourite composer (and famous anti-Semite) whose music was regularly played on the radioAnswers
1. The cost was subsidised so that most people could afford one
2. 70%
3. Jazz, swing
4. The Great King
5. Wagner - 21Legislation 1. What year was the Civil Service Law passed 2. Why was this not as effective as it was designed to be? 3. What was the name given to the Law which began to remove Jews from German education? 4. What was the name of the law which introduced press censorship in 1933? 5. What were the two laws that collectively became known as the Nuremburg Laws?Answers
1. 1933
2. Hindenburg’s intervention meant that all Jews who had fought in world war one were exempt
3. The Law against Overcrowding in German Schools and Universities
4. The Reich Press Laws
5. The Reich Citizenship Law & The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour - 22Legislation 1. Why were these laws rushed out? 2. What was the name given to half-Jews? 3. What event in 1936 meant that there was a break from anti-Semitic laws in Germany? 4. What Decree passed in April 1938 allowed for the confiscation of Jewish property worth more than 5,000 Reich marks? 5. From Oct 1938, what was stamped on the passport of any German Jew?Answers
1. Hitler wanted to appease the radicals at the Nuremburg rally in 1935
with a big policy announcement
2. Mischlinge
3. The Berlin Olympics
4. The decree of Registration of Jewish Property
5. The letter J - 23The beginning of the War 1. Where was the first Ghetto established in Feb 1940? 2. Where was the largest of all the Ghettoes? 3. What did all Jews in the area of the General Government have to wear in order to identify themselves? 4. Roughly how many calories a day were Jews in the ghetto receiving? 5. What was the most common disease that led to most deaths in the ghetto?Answers
1. Lodz
2. Warsaw
3. A Star of David
4. 300
5. Typhus - 24The beginning of the War 1. What policy were the Nazis seeking to fulfil in the East in order to resettle some of the population 2. Roughly how many Jews lived in Poland in 1939? 3. What territory was Arthur Greiser in charge of? 4. What was the General Government 5. Who was in charge of it?Answers
1. Lebensraum
2. Three million
3. Warthegau
4. A dumping ground for resettled or deported Jews
5. Hans Frank - 25Plans for dealing with the ‘Jewish problem’ 1. What island did the Nazis think they might deport European Jews to at the beginning of the War? 2. What was the stumbling block to this plan? 3. What was the name of the French Government that helped the Nazis deport Jews from France? 4. What did SS racists and Zionists have in common in the late 30s? 5. What agreement divided up Poland in 1939?Answers
1. Madagascar
2. The power of the Royal Navy
3. Vichy
4. Both wanted Jews to settle in Palestine
5. Nazi-Soviet pact or Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - 26Plans for dealing with the ‘Jewish problem’ 6. How were eastern Jews regarded by the Nazis? 7. Where did the Nazis plan to send the Jews once the Soviet Union had been defeated? 8. What was the name given to the German attack on the Soviet Union? 9. What was the name given to the Special Forces who operated behind the German lines and carried out mass killings? 10. What was the significance of Goering’s ‘Commissar order’Answers
1. Untermenschen or sub – human
2. Siberia
3. Barbarossa
4. Einsatzgruppen
5. It allowed German forces to kill indiscriminately outside of the normal rules of war - 27The situation of Jews in other parts of Europe during the War 1. Who was the head of the Vichy Government who collaborated with the Nazis in deporting French Jews 2. Where were most French Jews held before being sent to concentration camps in the East? 3. Roughly how many Jews were deported from Hungary during the war? 4. Where did Himmler himself witness a ‘special action’ against Eastern Jews in Aug 1941? 5. Why was an alternative to shooting Jews considered to be necessary by autumn 1941?Answers
1. Petain
2. Drancy
3. five million
4. Minsk
5. Psychological damage to executioners - 28The situation of Jews in other parts of Europe during the War 1. Where was the first experiment with gassing trialled in Autumn 1941 2. Name two anti-Semitic films released in Germany during the War 3. What was confiscated from German Jews in Nov 1939? 4. What were Jews forced to wear publicly in Germany from Dec 1941? 5. What were Jews banned by buying in Dec 1941?Answers
1. Chelmno
2. Jud Suss, Die Rothschilds, The Eternal Jew
3. Radios
4. Star of David
5. Chocolate - 29The Final Solution 1. What does the word Holocaust mean? 2. When did the Wannsee Conference occur 3. What was the significance of Wannsee? 4. Why was the date of the Wannsee Conference delayed? 5. What is the word given to describe a process of mass murder where an attempt is made to kill an entire race of people?Answers
1. ‘Burnt offering’
2. Jan 20th 1942
3. Decided the final fate of the Jews
4. Because of the tack on Pearl Harbour on the Japanese USA declared war both on Japan and Germany
5. Genocide - 30The Final Solution 1. Who was the leading Nazi at Wannsee? 2. Other than Auschwitz name three other death camps 3. What was the gas used in the mass killings of Jews in the camps? 4. What was the name of the brothers who led resistance to the Nazis in Belarus 5. What name was given to the forced labour camp built into the Harz Mountains where thousands of Jews were worked to death?Answers
1. Heydrich
2. Treblinka, Sobibor, Mauthausen, Belzec, Majdanek, Chelmno
3. Zyklon B
4. Bielski
5. Camp Dora - 31P1 - Auschwitz 1. Who was the notorious doctor at Auschwitz who supervised ‘research’ at the camp? 2. What is the full title of the Auschwitz camp? 3. Who was the commandant of Auschwitz? 4. What significant event occurred at Auschwitz in late 1944 5. Why did western governments not seek to bomb Auschwitz when news about the atrocities there began to leak out?P1 Answers
1. Mengele
2. Auschwitz-Birkenau
3. Hoess
4. Crematorium 4 was blown up by Jewish resisters
5. Either did not believe the stories or regarded such action as a distraction from defeating Germany - 32Auschwitz 1. Which nationality of Jews suffered the most deaths at Auschwitz 2. What did the sign on the entrance to Auschwitz translate as (‘Arbeit Macht Frei’)? 3. Roughly how many people died in total at Auschwitz 4. What was Operation Bernhard? 5. When was Auschwitz liberated?Answers
1. Hungarians
2. ‘Work sets you free’
3. One million
4. The plan to use Jewish labour to flood the British economy with
false bank notes
5. Jan 1944 - 33Responsibility 1. Name the historian who has claimed that not only was Hitler not responsible for the Holocaust but that it never happened 2. What is the name of Hitler’s secretary who would have controlled the flow of information to and from him? 3. What is the phrase used to describe the situation whereby Nazi leaders acted without orders from Hitler in a way they anticipated he would have welcomed? 4. What is the name given towards a system of Government where there is no one leader but many different, competing sets of authority between rival power bases? 5. Who was the historian who claimed that responsibility for the holocaust lay with the entire German people?Answers
1. David Irving
2. Martin Bormann
3. Working towards the Fuhrer’
4. Polycratic
5. Daniel Goldhagen - 34Responsibility 1. What happened in July 1944 that showed some Germans were actively opposed to Hitler? 2. Where were the top captured Nazis put on trial at the end of the war? 3. Who is the British historian who describes the Nazi regime as chaotic and Hitler as a weak dictator? 4. If you wanted to blame Hitler directly for the Holocaust, what evidence could you point to? 5. If you wanted to argue that Hitler was not directly to blame for the Holocaust what could you point to as evidence?Answers
1. The July Bomb Plot, tried to blow up Hitler
2. Nuremburg
3. Ian Kershaw
4. Mein Kampf, Reichstag Speech 1939, ideological aims were always consistent, even in his ‘Testament’ written in the bunker he died in, his secretary recorded he never stopped ranting about the Jews, therefore no Hitler, no Holocaust
5. No Hitler order, never visited a death camp, others made the key decisions, Nazi regime so chaotic could be argued he never knew
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