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| This law said any government employee could be dismissed for any reason | Civil Service Law |
| This was the murder of Ernst Rohm and other SA leaders | Night of the Long Knives |
| The SA was also known by what nickname? | brownshirts |
| After the Night of the Long Knives, what organization replaced the SA? | the SS |
| Who was the head of the SS? | Heinrich Himmler |
| This group was also known as the blackshirts. | The SS |
| This group was created in 1925 to protect the Nazi party and Hitler | The SS |
| This organization controlled the concentration and the death camp system. | The SS |
| In what German city did the Nazi's hold their rallies? | Nuremberg |
| This law withdrew citizenship from the Jewish Germans | The Reich Citizenship Law |
| These laws defined who was considered Jewish by the percent of Jewish blood. | Nuremberg Laws |
| Why did Herschel Grynszpan shoot Ernst von Rath, the Third Secretary of Germany? | He was upset that his family had been moved to a relocation camp on the Polish frontier and his family's store and possessions were confiscated |
| Who was the German Minister of Propaganda? | Josef Goebbels |
| What was the nickname for Kristallnacht? | The night of the broken glasss |
| What was Kristallnacht? | It was a pogrom where gangs of Nazi youth broke windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burned synagogues, and Jewish buisnesses were destroyed. |
| What was the official German position regarding Kristallnacht? | They were spontaneous outbursts not sponsored by the government |
| Police and fire personnel were told only to intervene under what circumstances? | If Aryan property was threatened |
| Who was held responsible for the damages of Kristallnacht? | The Jewish community. They were to pay 1 billion marks for the slaying of Von Rath and 6 million marks for the broken glass. |
| If a Jewish business man filed an insurance claim for the damage done to his business during Kritallnacht, what happened to the claim. | Any compensation claims paid to Jews by insurance companies were confiscated by the Reich. |
| Where would German have to get the plate glass for the windows that were destroyed and why did this upset them? | They would have to order the glass from Belgium and it would take two years for the Belgium companies to manufacture enough to replace the many windows that were broken. This would mean that valuable German money would be going to Belgium instead of staying in Germany. Goering was so upset he said, "I would rather you had slaughtered 200 Jews than destroyed such valuable property." |
| Kristallnacht is considered to be the beginning of the __________. | Holocaust |
| Why is it important that the German people showed little opposition to Kristallnacht. This even included the German Churches. | It made it clear to the Nazi's that they would encounter very little opposition in their persecution of the Jews. |
| After Kristallnacht, what laws were passed to Aryanize the German economy? | Jews were required to turn over all precious metals to the government, pensions for Jews dismised from civil service jobs were arbitrarily reduced, Jews were physically segregated within German towns, there was a ban on teh Jewish ownership of carrier pigeons, the suspension of Jewish driver's licenses, the confiscation of Jewish-owned radios, a curfew was enacted to keep Jews off the streets between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. in the summer and 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in the winter, laws protecting tenants were made non-applicable to Jewish tenants. |
| How did Americans respond to Kritallnacht? | It made front page news in American papers. FDR recalled the American ambassador to Germany and extended visitor visas for German Jews. Roosevelt also extended visitor's visas of the approximately 12,000 German Jewish refugees who were then in the United States, but at the same time, FDR announced that liberalization of America's tight quotas |
| What was the Wagner-Rogers Bill? | It was a bill that would allow 20,000 German Jewish children into the U.S. outside of quotas. Roosevelt took no action on the bill and without his support, it was buried in committee. Laura Delano Houghteling said, "20,000 charming children would all too soon grow into 20,000 ugly adults." |
| A year after the Wagner-Rogers bill was introduced, what campaign did Pets magazine launch? | They launched a campaign to have Americans take in purebed British puppies so they would not be harmed by German bombing raids, the magazine was flooded with several thousand offers of have for the dogs. |
| Why were American Jewish organizations reluctant to challenge public policy or the prevailing public mood. | They didn't want to stir up domestic antisemitism. |
| This was a German ship that carried 930 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to Cuba. | The St. Louis |
| What happened when the Jews got to Cuba? | They found out that their legitimate landing certificates for Cuba had been revoked and they were not allowed off the ship. They then spent five days in the port while they appealed to the United States. Finally, the ship was forced to turn back to Germany. When they were about halfway back, France, Belgium, England and the Netherlands each agreed to accept some of the passengers. |
| What was the fate of many of the passengers of the St. Louis? | Many of them eventually died under Nazi occupation. |
