Nazi Germany - the Leaders Trivia Quiz

Answer: Franz von Papen

Franz von Papen was made vice-chancellor when Hitler took power. He was later made the ambassador to Austria. He was aquitted by the Nuremberg Tribunal.

Answer: Josef Goebbels

Josef Goebbels later became the Minister for Public Enlightenment (propaganda). He remained loyal to Hitler to the very end when he and his wife, Magda, poisoned their children and then killed themselves in the Fuehrer-Bunker.

Answer: True

Albert Speer was Hitler's architect responsible for designing many of the buildings that the Nazis built during their reign. Apart from being an architect and Minister of Munitions, he was also Economics Minister before the war. He is often called the "good Nazi" because he countermanded the Hitler's orders to destroy all industrial plant in Germany and because was the only leading Nazi to show remorse at the Nuremburg Tribunal.

He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and released in 1966.

Answer: True

Heinrich Himmler became head of the SS and in 1934 also of the Gestapo. Soon afterwards be was appointed national head of the German police.

Answer: The Wannsee Conference

This conference, chaired by Heydrich at a large SS house on the edge of Berlin, was concerned with the administrative details of the Holocaust. The Jews were transported to extermination camps, where they were worked to death or gassed. The most infamous of all the camps was Auschwitz. Others included Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor and Belzec.

The conference was short. It lasted only 90 minutes.

Answer: Hermann Goering

This steel works was supported finacially by other small buisnesses.

Answer: True

The Luftwaffe was responsible for the blitz in Britain.

Goering had been a fighter ace in World War I and had commanded Manfred von Richthofen's squadron after the latter was killed in action.

Answer: True

He married her a matter of hours before they both died. It was her dearest wish for him to marry her.

Answer: The swastika

The yellow star of David meant that they were Jewish. In Germany any Jews who didn't have obviously Jewish given names had to adopt the first names Israel and Sarah so that people would know they were Jews.

The swastika was originally a religious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. However, in Germany from about 1910 onwards it became associated with racist, right-wing parties.

Answer: Alois and Klara

Adolf Hitler was born to Alois and Klara Hitler in 1889 in Braunau am Inn. Both were Roman Catholic and their children had a Roman Catholic upbringing.