MacKillop College Modern History Viewing guide for series The Nazis: A Warning from History Part 2: Chaos and Consent Imposing order in Germany (0.00 - 8.28) 1. With what images were the Nazis obsessed? ________________________ 2. Who were the first people the Nazis imprisoned in concentration camps? ________________________ 3. What was the name of the location of the concentration camp outside Munich to which Josef Felder was sent? ________________________ 4. How long did most of the early concentration camp inmates spend in the camp after their arrest? ________________________ 5. Did most people in 1933 regard concentration camps as an acceptable part of the “Nazi revolution”? ________________________ 6. Whose shops were boycotted for a day on 1 April 1933? ________________________ 7. What Nazi organization was responsible for terrorizing and humiliating Jews in the early months of the regime? ________________________ Reestablishing order in the Nazi Party (8.28 – 11.48) 8. Into what organization did SA leader Ernst Röhm want his “Storm Troopers” integrated? ________________________ 9. What Nazi leader plotted behind the scenes to bring about the downfall of Ernst Röhm? ________________________ 10. The Army was grateful Hitler removed their enemy Ernst Röhm. What did the Army do to show its gratitude? __________________________________ The nature of Nazi rule (11.48 – 16.10) 11. In the mountains near what southern Bavarian town would Hitler come to relax once his hold on power was secure? ________________________ 12. What was the name of Hitler’s mountain home? ________________________ 13. What word, beginning with “i”, was used to describe Hitler’s work habits. ________________________ 14. Who wrote, “In the twelve years of his rule in Germany, Hitler produced the biggest confusion in government that has ever existed in a civilized state.” ________________________ 15. What historian says there was a “contrast between image and reality” and that the Nazi structure of command was “disorganized and chaotic”? “Working towards the Führer” ________________________ (16.10 – 39.39) 16. People often sought to win the Führer’s favour by acting on their own initiative and claiming it was the “_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _” ________________________ 17. What activity became Hitler’s chief economic priority? ________________________ 18. What was one massive work creation scheme that helped rid Germany of unemployment? ________________________ 19. What was the negative economic effect of these large public expenditure programs that did not produce consumer goods? ________________________ 20. What demilitarized area of Germany was occupied by German troops in 1936? ________________________ 21. Name two areas of work in which Jews predominated in Munich, much to the aggravation of many Germans. ________________________ 22. What historian, having studied Gestapo files in Würzburg, says the Gestapo operated with the cooperation of many German citizens? ________________________ 23. What did the Gestapo spend most of their time sorting out? ________________________ 24. What Nazi leader excluded Jews from German cultural life? ________________________ 25. What anti-Jewish action did Goebbels launch in response to the murder of a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, by a Polish–Jewish student, Herschel Grynszpan? ________________________ 26. How many Jews died and how many synagogues were destroyed during Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)? ________________________ Disorder at the top leads to radicalisation (39.39 – 48.17) 27. What building constructed in 1938 was supposed to represent the power and order of Nazi rule? ________________________ 28. The Reich Chancellery was described as a “hive of political ……” ________________________ ________________________ 29. How many different private offices claimed to represent Hitler? ________________________ 30. A letter shown to Hitler by Philipp Bouhler, head of the Office of the Chancellery of the Führer, led to the secret enactment of a policy in 1939. The selection and killing of what type of people was authorized by this policy? ________________________