GRMN 2301 Inside Nazi Germany Final questions with answers graded A+ 2023/2024

GRMN 2301 Inside Nazi Germany FinalNSDAP - correct answer National Socialist Deutsch (German) Workers' Party () Hitler becomes Chancellor - correct answer in January 30, 1933. But, National Socialist ideas were around earlier: - WWI () - The Treaty of Versailles Tenets of Nazism - correct answer Anti-Semitism, Lebensraum, Nationalism, Leadership Principle, Social Darwinism, Pan-Germanism, Anti-Communism Anti-Semitism - correct answer The hatred of Jews based on the notion of race or religion. According to Hitler, the survival of the racial German identity was dependent on the exclusion or extermination of the Jews. (Hitler further claimed that the Jews are conspiring to keep this master race from rightfully ruling the world, by diluting its racial and cultural purity and by convincing the Aryan to believe in equality rather than superiority and inferiority) "Lebensraum" (Living Space) - correct answer The territory a nation believes is needed for its natural development and survival. Nazi Germany believed themselves, the Aryans, the superior class and in need of taking over Eastern Europe for living space. Regeneration of the Nation - correct answer The creation of a new "People's Community" after the humiliation of WWI and the economic depression. - The idea was that the institutions of state, society and culture would be remodeled to make a racially homogenous nation involved in making Germany great again. Necessity for Violence - correct answer Violence was needed in the struggle to achieve all of these goals Pan-Germanism - correct answer The unification of the German people in one nation under the leadership of one man (Fuhrer). Social Darwinism - correct answer A modern name given to various theories of society which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics. This was Hitler's way of justifying his entire ideology, because it was "Natural Law" Alienation - correct answer Because of the industrial revolution and urbanization of the time, the German people were alienated from the struggle for existence/the true meaning of life. Führerprinzip - correct answer The unification of the people under the leadership of one man Volksgemeinschaft - correct answer Eliminating the social classes and being just one people. The Nümberg Laws (1935) - correct answer -Offer criteria for identifying Jews - According to this chart, Hitler categorized people into groups and eliminated certain groups - This is used as a basis for the exclusion, deportation and mass murder of millions of people Summarize the basic ideology of Nazism - correct answer The main ideology of Nazism focused on the idea of regenerating the nation into a new "people's community" under the leadership of the Fuhrer (the leader). This could only be brought about through the creation of a racially homogenous nation that was the Aryan race. Nazism's Anti-Semitic view saw the Jews as a racial impurity that had to be exterminated in order to make Germany great again. Mein Kampf: Hitler and the "Power of the Idea" - correct answer - Program of Mein Kampf: Overcoming differences and creating a reconciled German state and community based on race - Overcoming Marxism (Communism) a. The Jewish question and Marxism blends into one b. Hitler doesn't like Marxism because it has an international plane: wants the workers of all countries to unite. Hitler wanted to focus solely on the German workers. The international view weakens the national integrity of every individual country (and the Jews supported this international vision). Hitler saw the Jews as the pure driving force of these aims to weaken individual nationality Main Concepts of Mein Kampf - correct answer 1) The Jewish Peril 2) Anti-Semitism