Nazi Germany - Quiz
Nazi Germany
  • 1. On what date was Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany?
A) 10 May 1933
B) 23 March 1933
C) 30 January 1933
D) 27 February 1933
  • 2. Who was the Dutch communist found guilty of setting fire to the Reichstag?
A) Paul von Hindenburg
B) Horst Wessel
C) Marinus van der Lubbe
D) Adolf Hitler
  • 3. What decree allowed the police to detain people indefinitely without charges?
A) Enabling Act
B) Law Against the Formation of Parties
C) Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
D) Reichstag Fire Decree
  • 4. What vote count allowed the Enabling Act to pass the Reichstag?
A) 300 to 200
B) 500 to 50
C) 444 to 94
D) 400 to 100
  • 5. What event was known as the Machtergreifung?
A) The passage of the Enabling Act
B) Hitler's seizure of power
C) The 1932 general election
D) The Reichstag fire
  • 6. What law officially made Germany a one-party state?
A) Enabling Act
B) Law Against the Formation of Parties
C) Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
D) Reichstag Fire Decree
  • 7. What was the date that Germany became a one-party state?
A) 23 March 1933
B) 30 January 1933
C) 10 May 1933
D) 14 July 1933
  • 8. Which professional group was targeted by the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service?
A) Trade union delegates
B) Teachers and judges
C) Farmers
D) Industrialists
  • 9. What became the sole national flag of Germany in September 1935?
A) The swastika flag
B) The black, red, and gold tricolour
C) The imperial black, white, and red tricolour
D) The party anthem flag
  • 10. How many new jobs were created by public works projects by the end of 1934?
A) 1.7 million
B) 4,000
C) 444
D) 6 million
  • 11. What did the Nazi government celebrate on May Day 1933?
A) The ban of political parties
B) The passage of the Enabling Act
C) Day of National Labour
D) The Reichstag fire
  • 12. Which institution remained outside of Nazi control according to the text?
A) The Reichstag
B) The civil service
C) The churches
D) The trade unions
  • 13. Who pressured President Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as Chancellor?
A) The Social Democrats
B) Politicians and industrialists
C) The Communist Party
D) The trade unions
  • 14. What was the second national anthem of Nazi Germany?
A) The party anthem of the Social Democrats
B) The imperial anthem
C) The Weimar anthem
D) Horst-Wessel-Lied
  • 15. How many Communist Party members were arrested following the Reichstag fire?
A) 4,000
B) 444
C) 6 million
D) 1.7 million
  • 16. What title was Hitler confirmed as in the 1934 referendum?
A) Führer
B) Kaiser
C) President
D) Chancellor
  • 17. Which empire was NOT cited as a predecessor to the Third Reich?
A) Holy Roman Empire
B) Weimar Republic
C) All of these were cited
D) German Empire
  • 18. What was the main method used to finance public works and rearmament?
A) Tax increases
B) Foreign loans
C) Gold standard reserves
D) Deficit spending
  • 19. What were the Nazi motorways officially called?
A) Bundesstraße
B) Autobahnen
C) Reichsstraßen
D) Blitzwege
  • 20. Which event in 1938 involved the seizing of Austria?
A) Operation Barbarossa
B) Munich Agreement
C) Anschluss
D) Sudetenland annexation
  • 21. Which groups were considered the 'master race' by the Nazis?
A) Romani people
B) Germanic peoples
C) Latin peoples
D) Slavic peoples
  • 22. Where were Nazi leadership officials put on trial for war crimes after the war?
A) Nuremberg
B) Munich
C) Frankfurt
D) Berlin
  • 23. What brought an end to World War II in Europe in May 1945?
A) The death of Hitler in 1944
B) The collapse of the Italian government
C) A peace treaty signed in Paris
D) The Allies entered Berlin
  • 24. What was the result of the Nazi racial policies?
A) The establishment of the United Nations
B) Increased immigration to Germany
C) The Holocaust
D) The expansion of the German Empire
  • 25. When did Germany lose the initiative in World War II?
A) 1945
B) 1943
C) 1941
D) 1939
  • 26. Which country did Germany sign a non-aggression pact with before invading Poland?
A) Italy
B) France
C) Soviet Union
D) Britain
  • 27. What is another common term for the German state in the Nazi era besides 'Nazi Germany'?
A) Imperial Germany
B) Weimar Union
C) Third Reich
D) German Republic
  • 28. Which term did Hitler and the Nazis use to refer to the 'Third Reich'?
A) Greater Germany
B) Eternal Empire
C) Unified Reich
D) Thousand-Year Reich
  • 29. According to the book 'Das Dritte Reich', what was the first Reich?
A) Holy Roman Empire
B) Prussian Kingdom
C) German Empire
D) Bavarian State
  • 30. What was considered the second Reich in 'Das Dritte Reich'?
A) Holy Roman Empire
B) German Empire
C) Austro-Hungarian Empire
D) Weimar Republic
  • 31. What was a major consequence of the German government printing money to pay war debts?
A) Deflation
B) Stable currency
C) Industrial growth
D) Hyperinflation
  • 32. In January 1923, what action did the French take after Germany defaulted on reparations?
A) Annexed Berlin
B) Invaded Munich
C) Blockaded the Baltic Sea
D) Occupied industrial areas along the Ruhr
  • 33. In what year was the Nazi Party founded?
A) 1923
B) 1929
C) 1919
D) 1920
  • 34. What term did the Nazis use for 'living space' for Germanic peoples?
A) Volk
B) Lebensraum
C) Reich
D) Bund
  • 35. What was the paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party also known as the 'Brownshirts'?
A) Wehrmacht
B) Sturmabteilung
C) Gestapo
D) Schutzstaffel
  • 36. Which sympathetic state leader tolerated far-right armed groups in Bavaria?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
C) Friedrich Ebert
D) Gustav Ritter von Kahr
  • 37. What global event in 1929 had a dire effect on the German economy?
A) Global food shortage
B) End of World War I
C) United States stock market crash
D) Collapse of the British Pound
  • 38. How many seats did the Nazi Party hold in the Reichstag after the 1932 election?
A) 150
B) 230
C) 400
D) 300
  • 39. Who was the SA Stabschef targeted by Hitler in the 1934 purge?
A) Kurt von Schleicher
B) Ernst Röhm
C) Joseph Goebbels
D) Gregor Strasser
  • 40. To whom did the new loyalty oath for servicemen specifically pledge allegiance?
A) The Office of the Reich President
B) The German Constitution
C) The Weimar Republic
D) Hitler personally
  • 41. What percentage of the electorate approved the merger of the presidency and chancellorship in the 1934 plebiscite?
A) 90 per cent
B) 50 per cent
C) 99 per cent
D) 75 per cent
  • 42. Who was the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?
A) Ernst Röhm
B) Kurt von Schleicher
C) Gregor Strasser
D) Joseph Goebbels
  • 43. Where was the first major Nazi concentration camp opened in 1933?
A) Auschwitz
B) Dachau
C) Buchenwald
D) Bergen-Belsen
  • 44. How did the Nazis characterize the country they wanted to build?
A) Democratic
B) Socialist-friendly
C) Capitalist-free
D) Marxist-free
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