The Rise of the Nazi Party Trivia Quiz

Answer: Drexler

Anton Drexler founded the "Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei" (DAP) - "German Workers' Party" in Munich late in 1918. Adolf Hitler was originally sent to spy on it - but instead joined it, in 1919. The party was refounded in 1920, again by Anton Drexler, as the NSDAP, but he was soon sidelined by Hitler.

Answer: Foreign Minister

Ribbentrop was appointed as the Foreign Minister in 1938. He was tried by the Nürnberg Tribunal after the war, found guilty of war crimes and hanged. While in prison he wrote his memoirs, "Zwischen London und Moskau".

Answer: Hakenkreuz

Hakenkreuz means "hook cross." It was adopted in 1920. Swarzyca is the Polish translation, Sayagata is the Japanese translation and Kolovrat is another Polish translation.

Answer: NSDAP

NSDAP stands for "Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" - the National Socialist German Workers' Party. The abbreviation NSDAP is sometimes also used in English.

Answer: To restrict civil liberties of his opponents in Germany.

Hitler blamed the Communists for the fire and convinced President Hindenburg that a Communist attempt to seize power was imminent. The Reichstag fire soon led to the end of democracy in Germany. It allowed Hitler to pass the infamous Reichstag Fire Decree, which effectively suspended most basic human rights, and also introduced the death penalty for a wide range of offences.

Answer: True

There were 129,583 members of the Party in 1930. Later, in 1933, the Party had jumped to 849,009 members and in the early war years, the Party grew to more than five million.

Answer: 1933

German nationalists had taken great exception to the the black-red-gold flag of the Weimar Republic as it was associated with 1848 and thus with democracy. The Weimar flag was abolished on March 12, 1933 and replaced, briefly, with the black-white-red flag of the Bismarckian Empire. On September 15, 1935, the swastika was officially incorporated into the Third Reich flag, and the flag of the country and the Party became identical.

Answer: Mein Kampf

'Mein Kampf' is regarded as the bible of National Socialism. Interestingly, the original title of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' was 'My Four-and-a-Half-Year Struggle, against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice.' His publisher persuaded him to shorten the title.

Answer: an attempt to overthrow the government

During the November 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler tried but failed to take control of the conservative Bavarian state government as the first step towards seizing control of the government in Berlin. Hitler's plan collapsed and he was arrested and put on trial for his involvement in the attempt.

Answer: Blondi

Blondi was a German Shepherd dog, that had been given to Hitler as a gift in 1941 by Martin Bormann. Hitler was very fond of the dog and even let her sleep in his bunker. Eva Braun, Hitler's partner also commited suicide that day, but it is recorded that Blondi's death affected the people in the bunker more than Eva Braun's suicide had.