Hitler & the Third Reich: XV - Quotes Part 2 Quiz | History

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1. Hermann Goering made a speech in 1936. The most important passage starts with, "Party comrades, I have come to talk to you about Germany, our Germany. Germany must have a place in the sun! Rearmament is only a first step to make our people happy. For me, rearming is not merely a goal in itself. I do not want to have rearmament for military ends or to oppose others. I want it solely for the freedom of Germany". What nickname was commonly given to this famous speech commonly?

Answer: The Butter or Guns Speech.

The Butter or Guns Speech became famous by the next passage:

"I must speak clearly. Some people in international life are very hard of hearing. They can only be made to listen if they hear guns go off. We are getting those guns. We have no butter, comrades, but I ask you: would you rather have butter or guns? Shall we bring in lard, or iron ore? I tell you, being prepared makes us powerful. Butter only makes us fat!"

The rearmamemt programme was pursued so energetically that by 1936-37 Germany was very short of foreign currency and came close to having to introduce rationing.

2. Which SS general made a claim that any SS man with a soft heart would do well to "retire quickly to a monastery"?

Answer: Theodor Eicke.

Eicke was the man that assassinated Ernst Roehm in his jail cell in the 'Night of the Long Knives'. Eicke was the first inspector of the concentration camps and he influenced the concentration guards with his attitude of "inflexible harshness". He was the commander of the SS Totenkopf Division.
He said, "It is the duty of every SS man to identify himself body and soul with the cause. Every order must be sacred to him and he must carry out even the most difficult and hardest of them without hesitation".

Rommel was not part of the SS.

3. Who did Adolf Hitler refer to as "the Man with the Iron Heart" in 1942?

Answer: Reinhard Heydrich.

Hitler referred to Reinhard Heydrich as "the Man with the Iron Heart" at his funeral. Until his death Heydrich oversaw the 'Final Solution' ... He was assassinated by two Czech resistance members in Prague in 1942. Hitler was so angered by the assassination that the village of Lidice was completely destroyed, and the inhabitants murdered.

4. Who wrote in his/her autobiography, "From my earliest youth I was brought up with a strong sense of duty. In my parents' house it was insisted that every task be exactly and conscientiously carried out. Each member of the family had his own special duties to be performed"?

Answer: Rudolf Hoess.

Rudolf Hoess was the first commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was given a glowing review in an SS report that stated he was "a true pioneer in this area because of his new ideas and educational methods".

If Hoess's account can be trusted (and there's no reason to distrust the account of his childhood), in his parental home - despite its ardent Roman Catholicism - obedience and respect for authority were the two most important virtues of all.

5. Who said, "I must admit that this gassing had a calming effect on me, I was always horrified of executions by firing squads. Now, I was relieved to think that we would be spared all these bloodbaths."

Answer: Rudolf Hoess.

Rudolf Hoess was responsible for the death of over one million people in his concentration camp. He was caught in March 1946, gave evidence at Nuremberg and was then handed over to Poland for trial. While awaiting trial he wrote his memoirs. He was executed at Auschwitz, the very site he commanded, and allowed others to die in.

Otto Rasch was an SS general (SS Gruppenf�hrer) and commanded Einsatzgruppe C, based in the Ukraine.

The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing units that systematically killed Jews, Russian partisans, and 'Politruks' (political officers), on the eastern front in 1941-1943. Rasch was one of twenty-four individuals indicted for war crimes at the Einsatzgruppen Trials. He died before sentence could be passed.

6. Who said this quote, and what is missing from the blanks? "Don't think that one can fight against disease without killing the cause, without exterminating the germ; and don't think that one can fight against __________ without taking care that the peoples be freed of the germ of __________."

Answer: Hitler (racial tuberculosis).

It was said by Hitler at a party meeting at Salzburg on 7 August 1920. The quote finished with "The effect of Jewry will never disappear and the poisoning of the people will not end unless the cause - the Jews - are removed from our presence".

7. Who said, "I decide who is or is not a Jew"?

Answer: Hermann Goering.

Goering made this statement because he was known to employ "non-Aryans" to selected Luftwaffe postings. One such person was Erhard Milch, Goering's Chief Assistant. Milch had a Jewish father, Anton Milch, but Goering made his mother sign a statement indicating that Milch was born illegitimate to another father (a non-Jew), therefore making Erhard free of Jewish descent.

8. Who said this? "It is time something must be done. Whoever acts will probably go down in German history as a traitor. Yet if he fails to act, he will be a traitor to his own conscience".

Answer: Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

Claus von Stauffenberg was a key figure in the plot on Hitler's life on 20th of July 1944 and paid with his life for his part in the attempt.

9. Who wrote this piece and submitted it into the Nazi weekly, "Der St�rmer"? "The English have no notion of the Jewish danger. Our worst Jews work only behind the scenes. We think with joy of the day when we will be able to say England for the English! Out with the Jews! Heil Hitler! P.S. please publish my name in full, I want everyone to know I am a Jew hater."

Answer: Unity Valkyrie Mitford.

Unity was born in 1914 in England. Her sister, Diana, married Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists. (According to the Wikipedia article on Unity Mitford (accessed on 4 November 2010), she was conceived in the small town of Swastika, Ontario. Yes, the place does exist).

10. This battleship was described by Winston Churchill as, "a masterpiece of naval construction". Although it was thought to be unsinkable, it was sunk on the 27th of May, 1941. What was the name of the battleship?

Answer: Bismarck

Shame on anyone that typed in "Titanic" because you saw the word 'unsinkable' :)

The Bismarck was 42,000 tons of awesome strength and firepower. It had eight massive 15 inch main guns and 64 smaller calibre guns.

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Hitler & the Third Reich: XV - Quotes Part 2 Quiz

A selection of various quotes associated with the Third Reich.

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