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Quiz about The SS and Gestapo
Quiz about The SS and Gestapo

The SS and Gestapo Trivia Quiz


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A multiple-choice quiz by autom. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
autom
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
198,668
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who set up the "Geheime Staatspolizei" (Gestapo)? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Who formed the "Schutzstaffel" (SS)? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In 1934 who was running the Gestapo? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What SS units were in charge of running the concentration camps from 1934 onwards? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In 1942, after Heydrich was assassinated, the village of Lidice in Bohemia was wiped off the face of the earth.


Question 6 of 10
6. Did the Waffen-SS recruit non-Germans?


Question 7 of 10
7. Which conference is generally accepted as marking the start of the "Final Solution"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Which high-ranking SS officer has never been found? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. How many people served in the Waffen-SS from 1939-1945? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What specialized units followed the German Army in the invasion of the Soviet Union, with orders to eliminate Jews, saboteurs, snipers, and Communists? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who set up the "Geheime Staatspolizei" (Gestapo)?

Answer: Hermann Goering

When Hermann Goering became Prussian Minister of the Interior in 1933, he detached the espionage and political units of the Prussian State Police and he put Nazis in charge. It was known as Department 1A, which later came to be called the Gestapo. (Later this term came to be widely used in a looser sense to denote the entire Nazi terror apparatus).
2. Who formed the "Schutzstaffel" (SS)?

Answer: Adolf Hitler

Hitler formed the SS for his own bodyguard in 1925. Four years later he appointed Himmler as its leader with the title "Reichsführer-SS" (*not* to be confused with *the* Führer himself).
3. In 1934 who was running the Gestapo?

Answer: Heinrich Müller

Müller was put in charge of running the Gestapo by Heydrich. By 1939 Müller was put in charge of the Secret Political Police.
4. What SS units were in charge of running the concentration camps from 1934 onwards?

Answer: Totenkopfverbände-SS (Death Head Units)

Initially (that is, in 1933-34) the concentration camps were run mainly by the SA, but after the "Night of the Long Knives" the SA was downgraded, and the SS became much more important. The Death Head Units were put in charge of running the concentration camps. The SS had other units that fought alongside the regular German Army. By June 1944, the Death Head Units were 24,000 strong.
5. In 1942, after Heydrich was assassinated, the village of Lidice in Bohemia was wiped off the face of the earth.

Answer: True

Hitler ordered Lidice be wiped off the map for the assassination on Heydrich. In addition, many members of the Czech resistance were arrested and killed in other parts of Bohemia and Moravia.
6. Did the Waffen-SS recruit non-Germans?

Answer: Yes

Especially from 1943 onwards the Waffen-SS recruited many non-Germans (including "non-Aryans") from Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, France, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine and many other nations. Wherever the numbers made it practical they were placed in separate national or ethnic units. From 1943 onwards, at the latest, the Waffen-SS included a kind of "Foreign Legion".
7. Which conference is generally accepted as marking the start of the "Final Solution"?

Answer: Wannsee

The Wannsee conference, called by Heydrich, lasted for only 90 minutes and was mainly concerned with administrative details. The decision to embark on the "Final Solution" had already been taken.
8. Which high-ranking SS officer has never been found?

Answer: Heinrich Müller

Mueller has never been seen since he left the bunker on the night that Hitler killed himself. The other three were all caught, tried, sentenced to death and hanged. (Note: Rudolf Höss, whose name is often spelled Rudolf Hoess in English, was the Commandant of Auschwitz from 1940-43 and should *never* be confused with Rudolf Hess. Höss was captured in 1946, gave evidence at Nuremberg and was then sent to Poland for trial.

He was convicted and hanged facing the main entrance to Auschwitz).
9. How many people served in the Waffen-SS from 1939-1945?

Answer: 1,000,000 +

See http://www.feldgrau.com/stats.html
10. What specialized units followed the German Army in the invasion of the Soviet Union, with orders to eliminate Jews, saboteurs, snipers, and Communists?

Answer: SD-Einsatzgruppen

The orders as to who was to be "eliminated" were issued by Heydrich in July 1941.
Source: Author autom

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