Nazis: A warning from History

Episode 2-chaos and consent

The Nazis, A Warning From History 2 'Chaos and Consent' - video Dailymotion

1. What sort of mood does the opening music create?

Sorrow mood
2. What impression did Nazi parades try to create?
Big parades, very strong and powerful

1933-34
Opponents: Political Parties

3. How were Nazi political prisoners intimidated?

In the prison concentration camps, everyone was threatening everyone else.
4. How were other prisoners intimidated?
Thretened to be throw in the concentration camp
Opponents: Jews

5. What happened on April 1st 1933?

Nazi party organized concentration camps, taking jews away
6. How did the family of Rudi Bamber suffer?
His father got taken away by the Nazi Party
7. How did students contribute to the atmosphere of extremism?
Burn books, especially those with jewish authors
8. Why did the army distrust Rohm and his stormtroopers?
They thought the stormtroopers were undisapline and did not belong to the amry

Opponents: The SA

9. What happened on June 30th 1934 and why?

A purge of the SA leadership was condicted and Rohm was shot
10. How did the army respond in gratitude?
The swore an oath to the regime
11. Why was this action so important to ordinary soldiers?
Soldiar s think that this oath is very important
The Nazi Systems of Government
12. What was the shape of Hitler’s typical working day?
He was lazy and likes to take walks
13. What message did he give to young people in his speeches?
Hitler emphasized militarism, national pride, obedience, and the idea of a superior "Aryan"
race.
14. How were policies formulated in the Nazi party?
policies were often formulated in a chaotic and unstructured manner
15. How did the Nazis get rid of unemployment?
With extenssive work programs
 16. How did ordinary Germans view the remilitarisation of the Rhineland?
Supported as a restoration of national pride and a rejection of the Treaty of Versailles.
Policy towards Jews

17. What was the “night of the Amazons”?

Nazi’s annual event
18. What wasd its purpose?
Spread Nazi Ideology
19. How did the Nazis justify demolishing the Munich Synagogue?
They wanted a park lot and the
20. What were the Nuremberg laws?

21. What was the general opinion of Germans towards Jews?

jews were not Germany citizens
22. What was the Gestabo?
Secret police
23. What evidence is there that ordinary Germans supported the Gestapo?
some complied with or supported their actions, while others were indifferent or fearful.
24. Who was Ernst von Rath and what happened to him?
German diplomat assassinated in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager
25. How did Goebbels make use of the murder?
used the murder to incite the Kristallnacht pogroms against Jews.
26. What was Kristallnacht?
The night of Broken glass 1938, a violent pogrom against Jews throughout Germany and
Austria
27. How many Jews were killed? How many synagogues were destroyed?
About 91 Jews were killed, and over 1,000 synagogues were burned or damaged.
28. How did ordinary Germans react to victims like Rudy Bamber?
They did not show empathy

Policy towards “undesirables”

29. How many private offices did Hitler have?

30. Why did he give people similar jobs?

31. What did Phiip Buller get control over?
32. How did this policy affect the brother of Gerda Berhardt?
33. What was Aplerbeck?

Conclusion:

34. To what extent does this documentary suggest Hitler was responsible for all these
policies?