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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%
How many women attended the motherhood training course ranbby the German Women’s League?
By march 1939, 1.7million had attended one of theses courses
How much loan was given out to newly married couples?
1000 marks, for each child 250 marks did not need to be repaid
When was the mother's cross awarded to women with four or more children?
Every year in august
When did Germany attack the USSR?
June 1941
When was Germany organised for total war?
1942
When and how many foreign workers were brought and forced to work in factories?
By 1944, around 7 million
When did a large scale recruitment of women workers begin?
1943
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 women working in the legal system
How many members did the DFW have?
6 million by 1939
How many homeless people and beggars were sent to concentration camps?
Around half a million in 1933
How did Hitler persecute homesexuals?
100 000 gay men were attested and 10 000 were sent to concentration camps
How ma y concentration camps were created?
By 1945 around 1000
How many forced labour camps were there?
Over 30000
How did the Nazis punsih the Edelweiss pirates?
Executed 13 young people in 1944
What happened at Treblinka?
In 1943, 150 prisoners escaped after setting the camp on fire
When was the White Rose group formed?
1942
How was the White Rose group punished?
3 of the leaders were arrested and executed in February 1943