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Flashcards by pjlovingthelearning, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Freidrich Ebert | Leader of social democrats and first President of Weimar Republic |
| Rosa Luxemourg and Karl Liebknecht | Leaders of the Spartacists |
| Wolfgang Kapp | Leader of the Kapp Putsch which took place in March 1920 |
| General Eric Ludendorff | Well known World War 1 German war hero. Took part in Munich Beer Hall Putsch with Hitler |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Germany 1933-1945. Wrote Mein Kampf in 1924 whilst in prison after Beer Hall Putsch |
| Gustav Stresemann | Chancellor of Germany for 100 days in 1923. Known for his policy of fulfilment. Foreign Minister of Germany 1924-1929. Won Nobel Peace Prize. |
| President Hindenburg | Another WW1 war hero. Elected President in 1925 and 1932. Died in 1934. |
| Heinrich Bruning | Chancellor of Germany between 1930 and 1932. Ruled by getting President Hindenburg to use Article 48. |
| Franz von Papen | Leader of Centre Party and Chancellor in 1932. Replaced by von Schleicher after losing a vote of confidence in Reichstag. |
| Kurt von Schleicher | Senior army officer and appointed Chancellor in 1932. Very unpopular - replaced by Hitler |
| Marinus van der Lubbe | Dutch Communist - implicated in the Reichstag Fire of 27th February 1933 |
| An SA soldier | Known as brownshirts. Destroyed at the 1934 Night of the Long Knives |
| Ernst Rohm | Leader of the SA. Killed at the Night of the Long Knives in June 1934. |
| Heinrich Himmler | Leader of the SS |
| Dr Joseph Goebbels | In charge of propaganda and enlightenment. Responsible for propaganda and Nuremberg rallies |
| Pope Pius XI | Issued an encyclical called 'With Burning Anxiety' |
| Cardinal Galen | Catholic who organised a protest against Nazi policy of euthanasia |
| Pastor Martin Niemoller | Set up breakaway Protestant movement called the German Confessional Church |
| Henry Metelmann | Hitler youth leader who 'simply loved it in the Hitler Youth' |
| Hans and Sophie Scholl | Leading members of the White Rose Group. Opposition group based at Munich University. Eventually executed. |
| Count von Stauffenberg | Leading light behind failed plot of July 1944 to kill Hitler. |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Church leader along with Niemoller. In 1939, joined the Abwehr and set up Operation 7 to help Jews escape to Switzerland. |
| Hermann Goring | Head of army and German economy. Introduced 4 year plan in 1933 to reduce unemployment and rearm Germany. |