Q 01/05

Who appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933?

A) President Paul von Hindenburg

B) Kaiser Wilhelm II

C) Chancellor Franz von Papen

D) General Erich Ludendorff

Answer · why

A) President Paul von Hindenburg

President Paul von Hindenburg had beaten Hitler in the 1932 presidential runoff, then appointed him chancellor months later.

Q 02/05

'Third Reich' cast Nazi Germany as heir to the Kaiser's Germany and which earlier realm?

A) The Hanseatic League

B) The Frankish realm of Charlemagne

C) The Holy Roman Empire

D) The Kingdom of Prussia

Answer · why

C) The Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire was the first Reich in the 1923 book that supplied the slogan; its author had rejected Hitler for his 'proletarian primitiveness...

Q 03/05

What was the Nazi Party's share of the federal vote in 1928, before the Depression?

A) 18.3%

B) 33.1%

C) 2.6%

D) 9.8%

Answer · why

C) 2.6%

By 1930, with millions unemployed, it had jumped to 18.3% and second place in the Reichstag.

Q 04/05

Hitler's failed 1923 coup in Munich is known as what?

A) The Spartacist Uprising

B) The Munich Soviet

C) The Kapp Putsch

D) The Beer Hall Putsch

Answer · why

D) The Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch ended when police fired on the marchers, yet judges gave Hitler the lightest allowable sentence and freed him within a year.

Q 05/05

Which book did Hitler write while imprisoned after his failed 1923 coup?

A) Mein Kampf

B) Die Grundlagen

C) Das Dritte Reich

D) Der Mythus

Answer · why

A) Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf sold slowly at first, but once Hitler came to power it became a bestseller in Germany.