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Understanding Nazism: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz explores the ideological, social, and political aspects of Nazism, its historical context, and key figures associated with it. Test your knowledge on the nuances of this complex topic.

#Nazism #World War II #History #Ideology #Anti-Semitism #Totalitarianism

1 Nazi ________ was based upon the belief that great nations grow from military power, and maintain order in the world.

2 Nazi cultural perception of the Jews, based upon the anti-Semitic ________, emphasized that Jews throve on fomenting division among Germans, and among nation-states.

3 (See: Black triangle (badge), ________)

4 [64] In contrast, SS Chief ________ was much interested in the occult.

5 To rescue Germany from the socio-economic chaos established by the world-wide ________, Nazism promoted a politico-economic “Third Way”; a managed economy, neither capitalist nor communist.

6 Nazism successfully competed for voters against ________ because Nazism appealed to the anti-Bolshevik German establishment — by promising socio-economic stability — and to the working class — by promising jobs.

7 When diplomacy failed to secure Danzig, the Nazis and the USSR signed the ________ (23 August 1939) for aiding Nazi Germany in a war with Poland.

8 What does the following picture show?  The Master Race: the Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) depicts German war hero Karl von Müller as an exemplar Nordic type of the Herrenvolk.   Adolf Hitler (right) beside Benito Mussolini (left), the founder of fascism and dictator of Fascist Italy. Mussolini provided financial assistance to the Nazis prior to their rise to power.   The German Revolution of 1918–19: Freikorps soldiers and Communist revolutionary prisoner, Bavaria.   Nazism: Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Nazi Germany.

9 ________, a prominent Nazi official, said: "Priests will be paid by us and, as a result, they will preach what we want.

10 Nazism (Nationalsozialismus, National Socialism), is the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves.
  • the King Jagiello Monument (pictured) in Central Park, New York, was forced to remain in the United States after the Nazi invasion of Poland made its return from the 1939 New York World's Fair impossible.
  • the men's adventure genre of pulp magazine often featured damsels in distress menaced by Nazis.
  • the first post-war survey of sympathy for Nazism in Germany was conducted in 1947 by the Allensbach Institute.
  • publication of comics in Hungary largely stopped during World War II due to Nazi pressure.
  • in spite of hesitations due to the growing influence of Nazism in Germany, the International Federation of Trade Unions moved its headquarters to Berlin in 1931.
  • Ukrainian Nazis have been blamed for the 1944 Huta Pieniacka massacre of Polish civilians.
  • Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews, Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius.
  • Olympic pair skating champions Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet refused to defend their title at the 1936 Winter Olympics because Nazi Germany was hosting the Games.
  • during World War II, Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier asked that religious orders take Jewish children into hiding to avoid Nazi death camps.
  • Belgian senator Baron Jacques Brotchi survived World War II as a child when his Jewish family was hidden from the Nazis by a Belgian family in Comblain-au-Pont.
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