Nazis Warning 2 Video Guide

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?
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2. Who were the first people the Nazis imprisoned in concentration
camps?
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3. What was the name of the location of the concentration camp
outside Munich to which Josef Felder was sent?
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4. How long did most of the early concentration camp inmates spend
in the camp after their arrest?
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5. Did most people in 1933 regard concentration camps as an
acceptable part of the “Nazi revolution”?
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6. Whose shops were boycotted for a day on 1 April 1933?
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7. What Nazi organization was responsible for terrorizing and
humiliating Jews in the early months of the regime?
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Reestablishing order in the Nazi Party
(8.28 – 11.48)
8. Into what organization did SA leader Ernst Röhm want his
“Storm Troopers” integrated?
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9. What Nazi leader plotted behind the scenes to bring about the
downfall of Ernst Röhm?
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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?
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12. What was the name of Hitler’s mountain home?
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13. What word, beginning with “i”, was used to describe Hitler’s
work habits.
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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.”
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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”
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(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 “_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _”
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17. What activity became Hitler’s chief economic priority?
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18. What was one massive work creation scheme that helped rid
Germany of unemployment?
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19. What was the negative economic effect of these large public
expenditure programs that did not produce consumer goods?
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20. What demilitarized area of Germany was occupied by German
troops in 1936?
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21. Name two areas of work in which Jews predominated in Munich,
much to the aggravation of many Germans.
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22. What historian, having studied Gestapo files in Würzburg, says the
Gestapo operated with the cooperation of many German citizens?
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23. What did the Gestapo spend most of their time sorting out?
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24. What Nazi leader excluded Jews from German cultural life?
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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?
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26. How many Jews died and how many synagogues were destroyed
during Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)?
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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?
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28. The Reich Chancellery was described as a “hive of political ……”
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29. How many different private offices claimed to represent Hitler?
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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?
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