GRMN 2301 Midterm 1 questions with 100% correct answers 2023/2024

GRMN 2301 Midterm 1NSDAP - correct answer National Socialist German Workers' Party Tenets of Nazism - correct answer Anti-Semitism* Lebensraum* Leadership principle Nationalism Social Darwinism Pan-Germanism Anti-communism Alienation - correct answer War was the overcoming of alienation and the finding of purpose. Mein Kampf & Storm of Steel - correct answer - Glorified and aestheticized war - Spoke of a new, militarized humanity - Nazis in Germany suspected that Jewish people and Germans (of a separate "race" were unequally involved on the frontlines (proven false) "If the best men were dying on the front, at least we could wipe out the vermin" (Mein Kampf) Reichstag Fire Decree (1st) - correct answer After the burning of the Reichstag building by a Dutch communist, Hitler urged Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag fire decree which heavily impeded constitutional rights. Nazis used the decree to then pass the enabling act. Suspended free expression, freedom of the press, and right of assembly. Enabling Act (2nd) - correct answer Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich, enables Hitler as chancellor to pass laws without approval of the Reichstag (and to sign treaties without other countries). Mein Kampf - correct answer - Would be the last, all-encompassing program for the kingdom to come - Written for those already subscribed to Nazism - Autobiography that communicates ideology Components of Mein Kampf: anti-communism - correct answer Communism was linked to the Jews. "Marxism, whose goal is and remains the destruction of all non-Jewish national states". International Jew vs national interests (Goebbels) Marxism was considered a Jewish strategy to dominate the world Components of Mein Kampf: personality - correct answer Links in with the idea of the artist dictator. Linked to the folkish state, which recognizes the value of race and importance of personality. There should be one ruler unobstructed. There is hierarchy even within the Aryan race to justify why Hitler can be the only leader (he is the creative genius). Components of Mein Kampf: the folkish state - correct answer Recognizes the value of race and importance of personality, and decisions are made by one man. Components of Mein Kampf: race - correct answer Jews are a race according to Hitler (who are interested only in self-preservation and world domination). Jewish race was the opponent of the Aryan race. Degeneration - correct answer a process of decline concerning humanity. Degeneration is based on the assumption that a perfect man develops over generations. Races rise and fall depending on their maintenance of purity and avoidance of mingling with other 'races' Relationship between arts and politics in Nazi Germany - correct answer - Divine right - From the crowd, but now above the crowd. Rules don't apply to him - Creative genius/artist dictator has a vision - Hitler's artistic vision consisted of the creation of a new racial German community under the leadership of one man. - AD does not negotiate/compromise because he's committed to his vision - The people are the medium (Goebbels) - AD is okay with violence WWI - correct answer