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

The elderly president acted reluctantly under pressure from politicians and industrialists; the Nazis called the day the Machtergreifung, or seizure o...

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 phrase came from Arthur Moeller van den Bruck's 1923 book Das Dritte Reich; the Nazis also spoke of a Thousand-Year Reich, which lasted twelve.

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

Inspired by Mussolini's March on Rome, he marched about 600 SA men on the Bürgerbräukeller alongside General Ludendorff.

Q 05/05

Which book did Hitler write while imprisoned after the 1923 putsch?

A) Mein Kampf

B) Die Grundlagen

C) Das Dritte Reich

D) Der Mythus

Answer · why

A) Mein Kampf

Volume one appeared in 1925 and volume two in 1926, about 750 pages in all; SS member No. 2 Emil Maurice helped transcribe it.