Hitler & the Third Reich: V Trivia Quiz

Answer: Six

Born in 1902 and died in 1999.

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink was the embodiment of the Nazi Aryan woman. She was tall, blond, had classic 'Germanic' looks and with six children she proved she was capable of child-bearing.
Her role was to promote the woman's role of child-bearing and the woman's role in Nazi Germany.

Her first husband was a Nazi storm trooper, and her third husband was an SS general (Obergruppenführer).

She wrote a book in 1978 called "A Woman in the Third Reich" ("Die Frau im Dritten Reich").

Answer: Richard Wagner.

Hitler's favourite was Wagner. Wagner wrote an essay entitled, "Das Judentum in der Musik" ("Judaism in Music") that delivered a savage attack on the Jews. This obviously appealed to Hitler owing to his own beliefs and anti-semitism.

Beethoven and Bruckner were also considered to be good composers by Hitler.

Music not approved by the Nazis was banned.

Answer: Olympia

Olympia was about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Part I was "Fest der Völker" ("Festival of Nations") and Part II was "Fest der Schönheit" ("Festival of Beauty"). It was the first documentary film to ever be made about the Olympics.

"Triumph of The Will" was released in 1935 and covered the 1934 Nuremberg Party Rally.

"Jud Süss" was made in 1940.

The "Eternal Jew" was a film made in 1940. It is a singularly vicious anti-semitic propaganda film. It is in the style of a documentary and was shot in ghettos that the Nazis had created in Poland, while stating the Jews chose (!) to live in such revolting conditions. Note that in German "der Ewige Jude" normally means "the Wandering Jew", but it can be ambiguous, and in this film it means "the eternal (unchanging) Jew".

Answer: Concordia.

After 1939 it was illegal to listen to foreign broadcasts, and the punishment for breaching the law was harsh.

Concordia consisted of jamming stations that tried to make sure that the German people could not hear what was happening in regards to the progress of the war. The Nazis dominated the radio frequencies and disseminated the information they wanted the German people to hear.

Radios were the main source of information and the Nazis produced radio sets that were cheap enough for the general public to own. "Goebbels' Mouth" was one such radio that was small and very affordable.

Olympia was the name of Nazi film made by Leni Riefenstahl about the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Answer: Sicherheitsdienst (SD)

The SD, or Sicherheitsdienst, was the security and intelligence branch of the SS. It was headed by Reinhard Heydrich.

The Edelweiss Pirates, Swing-Jugend and the White Rose Group were all against the Nazis and the Third Reich. In one way or another they resisted the Nazi regime.

The Edelweiss Pirates were a street gang that consisted of youths from the working class. They would regularly get into fights with patrols of the Hitler Youth and paint anti-Hitler slogans on walls.

The Swing-Jugend, or "Swing Kids" as they are also known, defied the Nazis by listening to and dancing to jazz music. They adopted western mannerisms, clothing, sayings and organised dances. The Nazis disapproved of jazz because it was considered "Negro music" and "degenerate".


The White Rose Movement opposed Hitler's regime in a non-violent way. The group was made up of university students from the University of Munich.

Answer: They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets.

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was born in 1921. Hans, her brother, was born in 1918.
They were both members of the White Rose and would distribute anti-Nazi leaflets. On 18 February, 1943 things went badly wrong for them both when they were sprung throwing leaflets from a balcony at the University of Munich.
Arrested by the Gestapo, they were tried for their "crimes" and executed.

The Nazi's didn't waste any time. Arrested on the 18th, tried on the 21st and executed on the 22nd February 1943.

Answer: True

Hans joined the Hitler Youth in 1933 because it was compulsory.

Sophie became a member of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) at age 12. She became disillusioned with the Nazi regime from that point on.

Answer: "Long live freedom"

His last words were, "Es lebe die Freiheit!" ("Long live freedom!").

Sophie was executed first and apparently did not flinch at all, something the executioner had never seen before.

The leaflet that cost them their lives was smuggled out of Germany and used by the Allies. Millions of copies, renamed to "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich", were dropped over Germany by Allied planes.

Sophie's last words were, "How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?"

A movie entitled, "Sophie Scholl - The Final Days", tells their story.

Answer: Autobahns

The autobahns were four-laned highways that criss-crossed the country. Over 3,000 kilometres (1,864 miles) were built.

The autobahns were initially used to transport German troops and supplies to the battlefields and borders quickly when World War II started. Ironically, they were used by the allies for the same purpose in the closing months of the war!

Answer: The organised conception and care of children born to members of the SS.

The Lebensborn Program is also known as the "Fountain of Life".

In 1936 SS leader, Heinrich Himmler, started the program in an attempt to encourage women to have babies with men chosen from the ranks of the SS. These men and women would be screened for "racial purity" prior to conception. Most of the mothers involved in the program were unmarried.

After the birth the children were adopted out and brought up by Nazis.