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Night of the Long Knives - Quiz
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  • 1. What is another name for the Night of the Long Knives?
A) The Brownshirt Rebellion
B) The Weimar Purge
C) Operation Hummingbird
D) The German Coup
  • 2. When did the Night of the Long Knives take place?
A) 1 June to 3 June 1933
B) 30 June to 2 July 1934
C) 30 January to 2 February 1933
D) 13 July to 15 July 1934
  • 3. Which organization did Ernst Röhm lead?
A) Gestapo
B) Reichswehr
C) Sturmabteilung (SA)
D) Schutzstaffel (SS)
  • 4. Who headed the Gestapo during the purge?
A) Heinrich Himmler
B) Gregor Strasser
C) Hermann Göring
D) Reinhard Heydrich
  • 5. Which former Chancellor was killed during the purge?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Paul von Hindenburg
C) Franz von Papen
D) Kurt von Schleicher
  • 6. What was the main reason Hitler wanted to suppress the SA?
A) To increase taxes on the aristocracy
B) To alleviate German military concerns
C) To expand the Reichstag's power
D) To support the Communist revolution
  • 7. What was the primary paramilitary force used by Hitler to carry out the killings?
A) Social Democratic Militia
B) Schutzstaffel (SS)
C) Freikorps
D) The Bavarian Police
  • 8. What was the estimated death toll of the purge according to some sources?
A) 50 to 100
B) 100 to 200
C) 700 to 1,000
D) 2,000 to 5,000
  • 9. What nickname was Ernst Röhm given in the early 1920s?
A) The Machine Gun King of Bavaria
B) The Beer Hall Putschist
C) The Brownshirt General
D) The Architect of the Purge
  • 10. What did Hitler call himself in his speech to the Reichstag on 13 July 1934?
A) The Protector of the Weimar Republic
B) The administrator of justice of the German people
C) The Supreme Commander of the SA
D) The sole voice of the German Army
  • 11. What was the 'Röhm Putsch' in Nazi propaganda?
A) An attempt to restore the monarchy
B) A strategy for foreign diplomacy
C) A plan to save the economy
D) An alleged imminent coup by the SA
  • 12. Why were the Freikorps initially formed?
A) To deal with the threat of a Communist revolution
B) To act as the official army of the Weimar Republic
C) To support the Social Democrats
D) To protect foreign diplomats
  • 13. What were the members of the SA colloquially called?
A) Brownshirts
B) Blackshirts
C) Reds
D) Greenshirts
  • 14. What was the primary goal of the purge regarding the military?
A) To force the military to join the SA
B) To replace all generals with SS officers
C) To disband the military completely
D) To appease the Reichswehr leaders
  • 15. Which Bavarian politician was killed for his role in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch?
A) Kurt von Schleicher
B) Gregor Strasser
C) Franz von Papen
D) Gustav Ritter von Kahr
  • 16. Which prominent stormtrooper spoke loudly for the continuation of the German revolution?
A) Max Heydebreck
B) Edmund Heines
C) Ernst Röhm
D) Werner von Blomberg
  • 17. Which event did Röhm participate in as an early member of the Nazi Party?
A) Munich Beer Hall Putsch
B) The Night of the Long Knives
C) The Battle of Verdun
D) The March on Berlin
  • 18. What was the nickname given to Blomberg by his critics in the army?
A) The Iron General
B) The Rubber Lion
C) The Old Fox
D) The Prussian Noble
  • 19. How did many officers of the Prussian nobility view the SA?
A) As a necessary partner
B) As a plebeian rabble
C) As a superior combat force
D) As a disciplined militia
  • 20. What did Max Heydebreck call the officers of the army?
A) Mentors
B) Heroes
C) Swine
D) Patriots
  • 21. Who did the stormtroopers wait to die before marching against the army?
A) Adolf Hitler
B) Werner von Blomberg
C) Papa Hindenburg
D) Edmund Heines
  • 22. By the beginning of 1934, what was the approximate membership of the SA?
A) One hundred thousand men
B) Five hundred thousand men
C) Over three million men
D) One million men
  • 23. What demeaning term did Röhm use to refer to Hitler?
A) The false leader
B) The weak politician
C) The ridiculous corporal
D) The puppet of the army
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