German Quiz

[TeutonicKnight]

1) 1935 Hitler said: “Germany has concluded a non-aggression pact with (which country?) and we shall adhere to it unconditionally [lol] - Of course he later broke it and invaded anyway.



2) What did Chamberlain give or agree to let Hitler have in 1938 because he promised that he would want no more land in Europe after that.

2B) Also, why was it so important for Hitler to take this area?



3) Approxiately how much money did Hitler spend on the military between 1933 – 1939. Remember Germany was in a depression and ”had no resources”.


4) Name the 2 “Amphibious Vehicles” used by the Wehrmarcht IN WWII?


5) Name at least half of the 12 “special purpose” vehicles used by the Wehrmarcht in WWII?


6) What were the twp main reasons Hitler wanted to take Norway?


7) What threat did the Germans give to the Dutch 4 days after they invaded which caused them to stop all resistance?


8) What did Himmler want to ransom the Czechoslovakian Jews for?


9) What was the code name for the plan to split the American and British forces and take Antwerp in the Ardennes offensive. This way they could negotiate a favorable peace.


10) What was code name for the plan to have English-speaking Germans impersonate US troops and cause chaos during Ardennes offensive.

 

[Kasperus]

1.Poland
2.Sudettenland, was it so important to him? Why? because of those 1.5 mln Germans there?
3.Hitler himself probably none
4.tank & bigger Tank
6.icefree ports
other, no idea. Why should anyone want to know it? That kind of details aren`t interesting.

 

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6) The Navy wanted the bases (bases which turned out weren't so important since the Germans later got access to the French Atlantic ports) and Hitler wanted to secure the shipments of iron ore from Narvik.

 

[viper37]

Originally posted by TeutonicKnight
1) 1935 Hitler said: ?Germany has concluded a non-aggression pact with (which country?) and we shall adhere to it unconditionally [lol] - Of course he later broke it and invaded anyway.

>>Poland

2) What did Chamberlain give or agree to let Hitler have in 1938 because he promised that he would want no more land in Europe after that.

>>The Sudeten (well, I'm not sure about the spelling so it's a part of Czechoslovakia)

2B) Also, why was it so important for Hitler to take this area?

It's an heavy industrialized area and by doing so he inherited a greater industrial production as well as a many army divisions.

3) Approxiately how much money did Hitler spend on the military between 1933 ? 1939. Remember Germany was in a depression and ?had no resources?.


4) Name the 2 ?Amphibious Vehicles? used by the Wehrmarcht IN WWII?


5) Name at least half of the 12 ?special purpose? vehicles used by the Wehrmarcht in WWII?


6) What were the twp main reasons Hitler wanted to take Norway?

>>To get acees to 'Iron path' and to prevent the allies its access.

7) What threat did the Germans give to the Dutch 4 days after they invaded which caused them to stop all resistance?


8) What did Himmler want to ransom the Czechoslovakian Jews for? He wanted to trade them to the Western allies for something, what was it? (D-day was launched a few days later and Churchill rejected the deal).
10,000 trucks.


9) What was the code name for the plan to split the American and British forces and take Antwerp in the Ardennes offensive. This way they could negotiate a favorable peace.


10) What was code name for the plan to have English-speaking Germans impersonate US troops and cause chaos during Ardennes offensive.

 

[TeutonicKnight]

1) Poland is correct. (Man that was a hard one ;D)
2)Everybody is correct, Sudeten. Why, Hitler really wanted it because it put him around the fortifications by the border and exposed the southern flank of Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovakia was the key to controlling Eastern Europe. He said he originally wanted it because it contained Germans and they deserve to be in the Reich (lol). 6 months later he took all of Czechoslovakia (then Poland next).
3) No takers
4)No takers
5)No takers
6)The two main strategic reasons were, it would put Northern England in range of his bombers and it was perfect for u-boats bases. The Iron is a good point, but not the strategic reasoning behind it. Also Hitler considered the Scandanavians racialy pure and of good Aryan stock.

 

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7) What threat did the Germans give to the Dutch 4 days after they invaded which caused them to stop all resistance?

Bomb Rotterdam. They did it anyway.

8) What did Himmler want to ransom the Czechoslovakian Jews for?


9) What was the code name for the plan to split the American and British forces and take Antwerp in the Ardennes offensive. This way they could negotiate a favorable peace.

err. Watch am Rhine or something like that, I think.

10) What was code name for the plan to have English-speaking Germans impersonate US troops and cause chaos during Ardennes offensive.

 

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Hello T K;

1. Poland;
2. Sudeten und "Heimkehr im Reich";
3. Don't know.
But in the first year of the war :
63,540,000,000 RM was spent and the debt (Reichsschuld) was :
52,060,000,000 RM on 31/03/40.
4. Der Koerbel and -
5. -
6. The real STRATEGIC reason was the iron; in winter the Baltic
freezes but not the sea at Narvik.
Don't forget that at that moment Germany had 19 (1 9) ocean going submarines and a He-111 couldn't reach Great-Britain with an effective and significant bombload.
7. The bombing of Rotterdam. A tragedy : the Dutch accepted but
the already airbone planes couldn't be recalled.
8. Heydrich's killing;
9. Von Rundstedt;
10. To debate : but is also called Operation Skorzeny - the
leader.


Predator I.

 

[Keynes]

#2 Getting the Sudetenland meant Germany wouldn't have to invade through the mountainous region on the Czech border. Czechoslovakia was a valuable prize b/c it was highly industrialized and had stocks of needed raw materials.

#3 Don't know the numbers, but RM numbers in the Nazi era can be misleading b/c in effect it was not a "real" hard currency. Under Schacht, trade was conducted on a bilateral basis because otherwise the accounts wouldn't balance. In effect, this allowed Germany to maintain an artificially overvalued mark and force their Eastern European trade partners to extend them loans in the form of barter IOUs. The latter were willing to do this b/c it had an inflationary effect on their own domestic economies which was considered desirable in the context of the Depression.

So money was never that much of an issue and the RM increasingly lost touch with financial reality. This explains the regime's obsession with accumulating gold stocks. The real bottleneck in the Third Reich economy was access to raw materials, food and (later on) labor. In the end, sufficient quantities of these resources could be obtained only through conquest, but the cost of maintaining Empire just made the problem even worse.

 

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Originally posted by Keynes
#2 Getting the Sudetenland meant Germany wouldn't have to invade through the mountainous region on the Czech border. Czechoslovakia was a valuable prize b/c it was highly industrialized and had stocks of needed raw materials.

And a lot of tanks, IIRCC over a fifth of the tanks used agains France where from the Czech army (and they where better than the most German tanks of that date).

 

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4) Schwimmwagen was one

9) Wacht am Rhein

 

[TeutonicKnight]

Monoriu,

7) Correct, and your right they bombed it anyway.

9) I knew that somebody would choose that as an answer. It is the incorrect answer though. I will explain in a few posts because somebody else said the same thing.


Predator I,

1) Correct
2) Correct
3) Good try, but I'll explain in another post
4) Der Koerbel? Never heard of that one I couldn't find any refence either. Made me doubt my knowledge =) I had to go back to my manual, "Janes Fighting Vehicles of WW2."
6) The German subs could reach the Atlantic coast and did so frequently. The He-111 could reach Nothern England with a full complement from Norway.
8) He wanted to trade them to the Western allies for 10,000 trucks. To no surprise it was rejected.
9) Wrong
10) The leader was Col. Otto Skorzney, but the operation was called Operation Greif, (greif means terror in German.)

Keynes,

Hitler wasn't really concerened wit hthe materials he would get because he didn't forsee a need for them yet. I have never read anything that would suggest he took it because of the industrial. Hitler had no idiea the allies would declare war on him to begin with. He was in the process of negotiating a nice trade package with Russia that would take care of all his materials that he lacked.

You are right in your assesment of the finacial dispostion of Germany. However, conservative estimates put the total dollar amount at 25 billion. I have heard it as high as 80 billion, but I highly doubt this. At any rate both are quit high for a nation that was in depression and had "no resources" to rearm.

Admiral Yi,

4) Correct the Volkswagen (Porsche) Type 166 Schwimmwagen was one. The other was the Landwasserschlepper (LWS)

5) Wacht am Rein, is wrong. Wacht am Rein was the codename given to the operation that was to commence on 25 November, however, Rundstedt persuaded Hitler for more time to get his troops redeployed and was renamed Herbstnebel (Autumn Fog).

 

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Originally posted by TeutonicKnight
5) Wacht am Rein, is wrong. Wacht am Rein was the codename given to the operation that was to commence on 25 November, however, Rundstedt persuaded Hitler for more time to get his troops redeployed and was renamed Herbstnebel (Autumn Fog).

What?????? You would think that after playing about 50 Bulge games I would have heard of this before.

 

[Orm]

Originally posted by Janbalk

And a lot of tanks, IIRCC over a fifth of the tanks used agains France where from the Czech army (and they where better than the most German tanks of that date).

They were at least on par with the Pz-III tank the germans had, and of course a lot better than the Pz-I and II which made up most of the german tank park.
By getting their hands on the Skoda-plants the germans upped their output capability of tanks by 1/3 (or so I think I read somewhere), which is pretty important.

 

[Orm]

Originally posted by TeutonicKnight
5) Wacht am Rein, is wrong. Wacht am Rein was the codename given to the operation that was to commence on 25 November, however, Rundstedt persuaded Hitler for more time to get his troops redeployed and was renamed Herbstnebel (Autumn Fog).

Never heard that before.
I know that the name 'Wacht am Rhein' was picked to confuse the allies if they would get hold of it. 'Watch on the Rhine' doesn't exactly sound like an offensive operation.

 

[TeutonicKnight]

I know that the name 'Wacht am Rhein' was picked to confuse the allies if they would get hold of it. 'Watch on the Rhine' doesn't exactly sound like an offensive operation.

I didn't think anybody would answer that correctly unless they have studied WW2 past broad history book.

 

[Orm]

Originally posted by TeutonicKnight



I didn't think anybody would answer that correctly unless they have studied WW2 past broad history book.

Well, I've read a lot about WW2, but my main focus has been on the eastern front. Apart from Normandy and Market Garden, I find the western front pretty hum-drum.

 

[Agelastus]

Originally posted by Admiral Yi

What?????? You would think that after playing about 50 Bulge games I would have heard of this before.

More normally translated in English as "Autumn Mist"-there's been at least one wargame on the battle published under that title I believe.