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Understanding the Nazi Party and Its Ideologies

This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the Nazi Party, its ideologies, historical significance, and key figures.

1 Germans voted for Hitler primarily because of his promises to revive the economy (by unspecified means), to restore German greatness and overturn the ________, and to save Germany from communism.

2 Nazi anthem: ________

3 The Italian Fascists used a straight-armed ________ and wore black-shirted uniforms.

4 What ideology does the Nazi Party subscribe to?

5 A further decisive step in the Nazi seizure of power (________) was the 'Enabling Act', which granted the cabinet (and therefore Hitler) legislative powers.

6 What are the colors of the Nazi Party?

7 For Hitler, the twin goals of the party were always German nationalist expansionism and ________.

8 Who of the following was a predecessor of the Nazi Party?

9 Nazi members with military ambitions were encouraged to join the ________, but a great number enlisted in the Wehrmacht and even more were drafted for service after World War II began.

10 Who of the following is/was the leader of the Nazi Party?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Nazi leader Theodor Habicht was briefly involved with the communists after World War I before joining the Nazi Party in 1926.
  • the Zionist leader Leo Motzkin organized the Jewish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and led agitations against the Nazi Party.
  • the Distomo Archaeological Collection of Greece has an exhibition of photographs related to the Distomo massacre in 1944 by Nazi troops.
  • the German Communist Martin Hoop, who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists.
  • industrialist Nazi Party member John Rabe saved more than 50,000 Chinese nationals from the Rape of Nanking.
  • Peter Adolf Thiessen, who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925.
  • editor Willi Eichler's 1932 Urgent Call for Unity to thwart the Nazi Party's rise to power was signed by 33 leading German intellectuals including Albert Einstein, Erich Kästner and Käthe Kollwitz.
  • Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941.