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Flashcards by Maddy Balkham, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Maddy Balkham
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| When did Hitler become chancellor of Germany? | In January 1933 |
| What happens to trade unions in May 1933? | Trade unions are abolished and their leaders arrested. |
| When did the political Parties get banned? | In 1933. Apart from the Nazi party. |
| What does Anti-Semitism mean? | The hatred of Jews! |
| What is the Article 48? | Part of the Weimar Constitution, giving the President special powers to rule in a crisis. Used by Chancellors to rule when they had no majority in the Reichstag - and therefore an undemocratic precedent for Hitler. |
| What is an Aryan | Someone who belongs to the European type race. To the Nazis this meant especially non-Jewish and they looked for the ideal characteristics of fair hair, blue eyes... |
| What is a chancellor? | Like the Prime Minister - the man who is the chief figure in the government, |
| The left wing. | Those who believe in radical change in society, usually to improve the lot of the working classes. e.g. Socialists |
| Weimer. | Where the new constitution for Germany after World War I was decided (Berlin being too dangerous). Gave its name to the Republican system of government from 1919 until the Nazi take-over in 1933. |
| War guilt. | One of the clauses of the Versailles Treaty - which Germany was forced to sign - declared that Germany was responsible for the First World War (and therefore had to pay reparations). |
| What is the trade union? | Organisation which campaigns for the rights of workers - for pay and working conditions. |
| What are the storm troopers? | ‘Sturmabteilung’ (= Storm troops). The Nazis’ army of thugs used to intimidate rivals. Merged into the police in 1933. Called ‘Brownshirts’. Leaders purged in ‘Night of the Long Knives’. |
| Right-wing. | Those who stand for order and authority and who are usually resisting change. e.g. Nationalists & Conservatives. |
| Reichstag. | The German Parliament. |
| Reichstag Fire. | 27 February 1933. Used by the Nazis to crush the Communists and force through the ‘Enabling Law’. |
| Nationalist Party. | Party which opposed the Weimar Constitution for much of its existence. Believed in a strong Germany - as before defeat in 1918. Formed alliances with Nazis after 1929 - shared in Jan 1933 government. |
| Infallibility | Someone or something that cannot fail, always right. In this case Hitler. Also claimed by Popes and History teachers. |
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