Building the Nazi “National Community”

After the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazis increased their attacks on,

• foreign Jews

• foreigners

• homosexual men

• immigrants from Poland

In 1871, Germany had enacted a provision in the criminal code which made homosexual acts a crime. This law was known as,

• Paragraph 175

• Special Order 1

• Special Order 191

• the Berlin Decree

By the 1920s and 1930s, in Berlin (and a few larger German cities) tolerance of,

• foreigners increased

• homosexuality increased

• Jews increased

• the Nazis was on the decline

On August 2, 1934, German president Paul von Hindenburg,

• abdicated his throne

• died

• fled to England

• denounced the platform of the Nazi party

With the death of German president Paul von Hindenburg Hitler combined the positions of chancellor and President into the title/position of,

• El Caudillo

• Fuhrer

• Il Duce

• Obergruppenführer

In the past, German soldiers had taken an oath to Germany. Now, Hitler created a new oath which had soldiers and average Germans swear an oath of loyalty to,

• Adolf Hitler

• God

• the German people

• the Nazi party

By 1934, Hitler considered the National Socialist revolution in Germany complete. In control of the nation, the Nazis turned their attention to creating a,

• more respected Germany on the international stage

• more robust German economy

• racially pure “national community” in which Nazism was not revolutionary but normal

• all of the above

The Nazis were clear about their ultimate goal of creating a “racially pure” state. Through policies and propaganda, the Nazis prepared Germans for war to acquire the “living space” the “Aryan” race “needed” to grow and expand. This idea of living space was known as,

• lebensraum

• mischlinge

• untermenschen

• volksgemeinschaft

In 1933, the Nazis issued a decree that required Germans to,

• burn all Bibles in Germany

• destroy any and all works of Jewish art and literature

• turn in any Jews they encountered

• turn in anyone who spoke out against the party, its leaders, or the government

In 1933, this American visited Germany and, in his reflections, portrayed Germany as “silent, nervous, suppressed; it speaks in whispers; there is no public opinion, no opposition, no discussion of anything; there are waves of enthusiasm, but never any protest of the slightest degree.”

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• Marcus Garvey

• W.E.B. Du Bois