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GRMN 2301: Inside Nazi Germany EXAM 1/QuestionsAnd Answers Latest 2023-2024
Quiz :*What are the major tenets of Nazi thought? (also need to define them) -
Answer :1. Anti-Semitism
2. Lebensraum
3. Social Darwinism
4. Leadership Principle
5. Racial Hygiene
6. Individualism
Quiz :Anti-Semitism - Answer :1. Religious/Old Christian Anti-Semitism:
blamed Jews for the death of Jesus so wanted to hate them but also wanted to
keep them around in case a Jesus situation happened again; based on FAITH
(Jews were able to convert to Christianity and then they were ok)
2. Modern Anti-Semitism: now based on race; it seemed as though Jews were
gaining = rights under the law, but it was actually a ploy to get them associated
with the Enlightenment: laws did not allow them in typical professions, they
now had to work in more modern professions, and this is part of what got
them associated with modernism; Jews started to get blamed for the struggles
of modernity and rationalization
3. Redemptive Anti-Semitism: ...
Quiz :Lebensruam - Answer :Germans thought they were justified in invading
and colonizing Eastern Europe because they were superior to Eastern
Europeans (to them, this was a scientific justification)
the belief that Germany and the Germans needed "living space" in Eastern
Europe; wanted to conquer Eastern Europe
Quiz :Social Darwinism - Answer :the strongest and most ruthless survive; "kill
or be killed" mindset; life is the struggle for survival
Quiz :Nazism - Answer :aimed for the creation of a new racial German
community under the leadership of one man
, (must be pure; cleansed; racial hygiene)
Quiz :Leadership Principle - Answer :under one man; believed that democracy
was part of the reason for all the problems and people wanted one single
person to be making all the decisions
Quiz :Racial Hygiene - Answer :allowing only the fittest and strongest to
reproduce; killing physically/mentally disabled/ill or leaving them untreated so
only the fittest would survive
essentially weeding out the weak to create the strongest race possible
Quiz :Individualism - Answer :the best should rise above the rest through
struggle and should then use their geniusness to benefit the rest of society
Quiz :*Explain the Rise of the Nazi Movement - Answer :-Europe 1803:
"Germany" was just an idea; it did not exist until the late 19th century
-1871: forms Germany and Austria-Hungary Empires
Loss of WWI
-loss of territory (1919) due to Treaty of Versailles
-End of WWI: changed what people thought of war; what it meant to be
human (End of WWI led to: post war loss of German Territory, mechanized
warfare, Nationalism, Revolutionary moments in art and literature)
1917:
-Soviet Union rise to power (communist party taking over biggest country in
the world)
-"if they could do this, we could do something similar in Germany"
1920s:
-Election Summaries: Nazi party never a majority party; had popular support
but not overwhelmingly so; formed alliances with more traditional
conservative parties
Quiz :*What is the importance of culture and art in Nazi thought? - Answer :-
Creativity was important because it is what (along with Culture) distinguishes
Germans from and above other races
Quiz :Mein Kampf - Answer :Adolf Hitler
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