nazi germany key dates + stats

When was the wall Street crash?

1929

How many Jehovah witnesses were killed in concentration camps?

1/3 as they were pacifists and refused to fight in the army

How many pastors did the Nazis arrest?

800

How many Gestapos were there?

16 000

How many people was unemployed?

By 1932, 6 million were unemployed and income was down by 40% since 1929

When was operation Valkyrie?

July 1944

When did Hitler become chancellor?

30 January 1933

How many seats did the Nazis have when they were the second biggest party?

In September 1930 they had 107 seats on the reichstag

How many votes did the Nazis have?

In July 1932 they had 37% of the votes

How did Hitler appeal to the public?

In 1932 he used a plane to take him to 20 cities in 6 days to make election speeches

When did Joseph Goebbels become the chief Nazi propagandist?

1928

How many men was in the SA (stormtroopers)

100000 in 1931 which rose to 400000 in 1932

When was the Reichstag fire?

27 February 1933

When did the Nazis get their best votes but without a majority?

5 march 1933 with 288 seats

How many were killed during the march 1933 election campaign?

50

When was the enabling law passed?

23 march 1933

How many votes did the enabling law win by?

444 to 94

When was the night of the long knives?

29-30 June 1934

How many SA members were arrested and killed during the night of the long knives?

Around 400

When did Goebbels take control over all media?

13 march enabling Nazis to broadcast their anti communist message with the rwdio

When was Nazis placed in charge of all government, councils and police?

7 April 1933

When did Hitler ban all trade unions and arrested their leaders?

2 may 1933

When did Hitler ban all political parties?

14 July 1933

When did Hindenburg die?

2 August 1934

When did the army take an oath of personal loalty to Hitler?

19 August 1934

When did Hitler make a speech taking full responsibility for commiting treason on the night of the long knives?

13 July 1934

When was the Berlin Olympics?

1936

When was the SS set up?

1925

How many members did the SS have?

240 000 in 1939

How much did Nazi ownership of the media grow?

3% in 1933 to 69% in 1939 to 82% in 1944

How much households owned a radio?

70% by 1939

When was the Burning of Books ceremony?

May 1933 where 20 000 books were burnt to cleanse the new Germany

how many members were there in the Hitler youth?

100 000 in 1932 which grew to 3.5 million in 1934

When was the Hitler youth made compulsory?

1939

How many teachers were replaced for racial or political reasons?

Between 1933-4, 15% were replaced.

How many teachers were dismissed?

In 1939, 3000 dismissed

When were youth clubs banned?

1933

When was the kristallnacht?

November 9 1938

What was destroyed during the kristallnacht?

400 synagogues, 7500 shops and 30000 Jews were arrested

When was the Warsaw ghetto uprising?

1943, lasting 43 days

When did Nazis order for the creation of new autobahns?

June 1933

How much work did public work schemes give to the German people?

100 000

How many men were conscripted?

From 1935, all makes between age 18-25 had to join the armed forces for at least 2 years. Within 5 years the army grew from 100000 to 1400000

How much raw materials was Germany importing?

By 1939, 33%

How much food was Germany importing?

By 1939, 20%

When did Germany attack the USSR?

June 1941

When did the Germans surrender to Russia?

1943

When did ww2 end?

May 1945

What were the results of ww2?

Half a million civilians died, ¾ of a million were wounded, and 7.5 million were made homeless

When was the Nuremberg laws introduced?

1935

How many Jews were trapped under Nazi rule during the war?

3.5 million

How many Jews were living in territory controlled by Germans?

By 1941, 6 million

How many children was born because of the Lebensborn movement?

8000

How much did birth rate rise to?

In 1933 there were around 1million births which rose to around 1.4million in 1939

How much women left work?

In 1934, 360 000 but by 1936 there were no wkmenworkingbin the legal system

How many members did the DFW have?

6 million by 1939