Leaders of the Third Reich Quiz

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One of the most infamous scientists of the Third Reich was what doctor known for experimenting on human beings imprisoned at Auschwitz?
Carter Holst
Josef Mengele
Adolf Eichmann
Rudolf Hess

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Josef Mengele is known by what nickname that encapsulates the murderous nature of his experiments?
Red Hand
Black Tide
Sunless
Angel of Death

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What was the name of Hitler's private secretary who oversaw most of the Third Reich's domestic policy and notably expanded Holocaust persecution to include select Christian groups that he felt weren't falling in line?
Klaus Barbie
Martin Bormann
Hans Kammler
Wolfgang van Goethe III

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What head of the Gestapo for most of the war vanished without so much as a trace, becoming one of the highest-ranking Nazis whose death or capture was never confirmed?
Richard Hess
Vyacheslav Molotov
Hans Jergen
Heinrich Muller

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Wilhelm Keitel was the overall commander of Germany's collective armed forces during World War Two. What was the name of that collective military body?
The Wehrmacht
The Kriegsmarine
The Luftwaffe
The Waffen SS

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Adolf Hitler, the supreme leader of Nazi Germany, was often known by what German word that simply translates to "Leader"?
Kaiser
Fuhrer
Khan
Magnos

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Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany by what final President of the Weimar Republic?
Paul von Hindenburg
Gustav Holst
Emil Bitner
Alfred von Ribbentrop

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Klaus Barbie is known as the "Butcher" of what European city because he massacred its people?
Paris
Lyon
Warsaw
Rome

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What Deputy Fuhrer was Hitler's loyal subordinate until he was captured in Scotland during 1941?
Albert Speer
Karl Brandt
Rudolf Hess
Gustav Holm

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What subcommander of the Wehrmacht (Working under Wilhelm Keitel) became known for his widespread orders to execute prisoners of war?
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Alfred Jodl
Thomas Jutte
Manfred von Richthofen
Ivo Donnelsohn

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What S.S. logistics commander oversaw the transport of Jews from occupied territories back to Germany and Poland for execution?
Howard Kanst
Adolf Eichmann
Soren Kierkegaard
Joseph Goebbels

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Adolf Eichmann was sentenced in a public trial during the 1960s after being captured by what Israeli intelligence agency?
The Foreign Legion
MI6
Spetsnaz
Mossad

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What infamous Nazi official was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda?
Fritz Burkeau
Milhaus Schnieder
Marcel Leyre
Joseph Goebbels

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Goebbels also convinced Adolf Hitler to pursue what type of mobilization where a country dedicates all of its resources and manpower to warfare?
Militant Keynesianism
Half war
Homefront war
Total war

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What Nazi bureaucrat was known as the head of civil engineering, designing the concentration camps to be as efficient as possible, and also helping to establish the V-2 rockets that could terrorize even distant targets?
Hans Kammler
Igor Ichtein
Ferdinand Lanza
Lars Hoffstetter

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Erwin Rommel was a Nazi general best-known for his campaigns against the Allied Forces in what region?
North Africa
West Asia
Southern Europe
South Asia

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What was Erwin Rommel's ultimate fate?
He was involved in a fatal car accident.
He was executed after a trial by Allied officials.
He took his own life
He was murdered by one of his lieutenants

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Hitler's physician Karl Brandt authored what plan that resulted in 100,000 "mentally deficient" people being euthanized against their will?
Valkyrie 1
Aktion T4
Jungers IV
Burser V

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What final leader of the Third Reich was an admiral known for ordering his U-Boats to target civilian vessels in order to cripple foreign economies?
Lars Schaeffer
Karl Donitz
Unter Ibsen
Peter Oblyavich

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Amt Rosenberg was an institution of the Third Reich that was tasked with brainwashing the people through scientific misrepresentation and the policing of culture. What Nazi official led Amt Rosenberg?
Andrew Rosenberg
Will Rosenberg
Tyrann Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg

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Hermann Goring led what branch of the German armed forces during World War Two?
The Kriegsmarine
The Luftwaffe
The Wehrmacht
The Heer

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Because he encouraged obedience to Hitler within the Wehrmacht, Goring was granted what honorary rank that gave him seniority over all other members in the Third Reich's armed forces?
Magnakrieger
Unterfuhrer
Reichsmarschall
Oberfuhrer

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What man led the S.S. for most of its life and became feared throughout Germany as a result?
Oskar Hatler
Heinrich Himmler
Giles Fitler
Nolonn Higgler

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Himmler was directly responsible for commissioning the Generalplan Ost which allowed the Nazis to genocide people they encountered to what direction of Germany's borders?
South
North
East
West

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Reinhard Heydrich was Himmler's right-hand man and helped run the S.S. What infamous political purge did Heydrich orchestrate to arrest and/or kill members of the German government who didn't support Hitler?
The Night of Long Knives
Kristallnacht
The Sunday Surprise
Black Tuesday

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Rudolf Hoss was the commandant of what infamous concentration camp in Poland where over 1 million people died over the course of six years?
Jodinhal
Bircieu
Auschwitz
Leningrad

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Joachim von Ribbentrop strengthened Germany's military by authoring what pact that united the Axis Powers?
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The Pact of Broken Glass
The Pact of Brick
The Pact of Gold
The Pact of Steel

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Otto Skorzeny, the Nazi spymaster, notably enacted the Gran Sasso Raid that freed what war criminal from captivity?
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Erwin Rommel
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

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Wilhelm Frick, the leader of Hitler's cabinet, authored what series of civil codes that made interracial marriage and being mixed race a crime punishable by death?
The Nuremberg Laws
The Munich Codes
The Herron Laws
The Dusseldorf Protections

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What Minister of War Production encouraged the use of slave labor to make armaments?
Klaus Schriver
George Tyson
Nicholas Cohen
Albert Speer

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