# Trivia Set: The Third Reich  
**Used:** 2025-06-10

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## Regular Questions

### 1. What years did the Third Reich span in Nazi Germany?  
**Answer:** 1933–1945  

**Taglines:**  
- Started with elections, ended with explosions  
- A dozen years of war, propaganda, and tragedy  
- Not a vibe  
- Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end well  
- The sequel nobody wanted to the First Reich

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### 2. What principle placed Hitler's word above all written law?  
**Answer:** Führerprinzip  

**Taglines:**  
- When “Because I said so” became national policy  
- One dictator to rule them all  
- Checks and balances? Cute.  
- Legal system: deleted  
- This is why we can’t have nice things

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### 3. Which Nazi leader oversaw the SS and conceived the Holocaust?  
**Answer:** Heinrich Himmler  

**Taglines:**  
- Bureaucrat of genocide  
- Built a police state with spreadsheets  
- Evil AND awkward looking  
- Looks like an accountant, acts like a monster  
- Your least favorite Himmler, hopefully

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### 4. Name the architect-turned-Nazi official who designed the Reich’s buildings and later munitions.  
**Answer:** Albert Speer  

**Taglines:**  
- From blueprints to bombs  
- Hitler’s favorite artsy friend  
- Claimed he “didn’t know” about the Holocaust—lol  
- War crimes, but make it stylish  
- Architecture was never so morally compromised

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### 5. Which Nazi program encouraged racially "pure" children from SS lineages?  
**Answer:** Lebensborn  

**Taglines:**  
- Nazi baby registry  
- Eugenics with paperwork  
- Romantic in the creepiest way  
- It’s a boy! And he’s legally blonde!  
- If eugenics and Tinder had a baby

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## Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. The official name for Nazi Germany from 1933–1945 was the “Third ______.”  
**Answer:** Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Not first, not second, and very much the worst  
- Still no one’s favorite trilogy  
- The prequel to a divided Germany  
- Too many flags, not enough soul  
- Reich rhymes with “yikes”

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### 2. Under the Führerprinzip, government members owed _____ allegiance to Hitler.  
**Answer:** unconditional  

**Taglines:**  
- No backsies, no take-backs  
- Just say “Yes, Mein Führer” and sign here  
- Total loyalty or total disappearance  
- Unconditional love is cute in puppies, not dictators  
- The worst NDA ever

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### 3. The Third Reich promoted an anti-_____ campaign that linked smoking to cancer.  
**Answer:** smoking  

**Taglines:**  
- Nazi health tips: confusingly ahead of their time  
- No cigs, just Sieg Heils  
- Science meets sociopathy  
- Smokers bad, genocide fine—makes sense  
- They hated Marlboros more than morality

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### 4. The evil secret police founded by Göring and directed by Himmler was called the ______.  
**Answer:** Gestapo  

**Taglines:**  
- KGB, but with worse uniforms  
- They always knocked—just kidding, they didn’t  
- "Surprise!" but in the scariest way  
- Doorbell dread, circa 1939  
- Keeping the “secret” in “secret police”

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### 5. Before the Holocaust, the Nazis considered deporting Jews to ______.  
**Answer:** Madagascar  

**Taglines:**  
- When genocide was still in brainstorming  
- “What if we just... relocated them?”  
- Because colonial racism wasn’t enough  
- Hitler's tropical brainstorm  
- Worst travel brochure ever

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## Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. Who served as Reich Minister of the Interior and oversaw the Gestapo early in the Third Reich?  
A. Adolf Hitler  
B. Wilhelm Frick  
C. Hermann Göring  
D. Heinrich Himmler  
**Answer:** B. Wilhelm Frick  

**Taglines:**  
- The man who made paperwork deadly  
- Bureaucracy with a mustache  
- Not the loudest Nazi, just the scariest on paper  
- “Interior Ministry” never sounded so ominous  
- Forgot by many, regretted by all

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### 2. What happened in January 1934 that merged the roles of President and Chancellor under Hitler?  
A. Enabling Act  
B. Reichstag Fire  
C. Night of the Long Knives  
D. Death of Hindenburg  
**Answer:** D. Death of Hindenburg  

**Taglines:**  
- The old man croaked, and Hitler scooped the crown  
- Germany’s last “what if” moment  
- Goodbye democracy  
- Hindenburg: 0, fascism: 1  
- When checks and balances finally broke

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### 3. Which racial pseudo-medical policy did the Third Reich institute to prevent "undesirable" reproduction?  
A. Lebensborn  
B. Nuremberg Laws  
C. Genetic Health Courts  
D. Euthanasia Program  
**Answer:** C. Genetic Health Courts  

**Taglines:**  
- Eugenics by committee  
- Judge, jury, and birth control  
- Nazi eugenics meets daytime court show  
- “You are NOT the father”... by law  
- Genocide with a clipboard

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### 4. Besides genocide, what controversial policy was aggressively promoted to Nazi soldiers?  
A. Vegetarianism  
B. Methamphetamine use  
C. Yoga  
D. Public speaking classes  
**Answer:** B. Methamphetamine use  

**Taglines:**  
- Fueled by hate... and crystal meth  
- Blitzkrieg brought to you by speed  
- High as a kite, full of hate  
- The ultimate performance enhancers: fear and meth  
- Better living through chemistry (not really)

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### 5. Which 1936 event the Third Reich used as global propaganda despite Nazi racist policies?  
A. Nuremberg Rally  
B. Anschluss  
C. Berlin Olympics  
D. Munich Agreement  
**Answer:** C. Berlin Olympics  

**Taglines:**  
- Nazi PR dressed in spandex  
- Jesse Owens clapped back  
- “We’re not racist—look at the javelin!”  
- The worst opening ceremony host ever  
- Sportswashing before it was trendy

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# Trivia Set: The Third Reich (as the Answer)  
**Used:** 2025-06-10

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## Regular Questions

### 1. What regime led Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler?  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Brought to you by fascism and meth  
- Twelve years that ruined everything  
- Sponsored by swastikas and sadness  
- Germany’s dark chapter  
- Not the trilogy you wanted

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### 2. What name is used to describe Nazi Germany during World War II?  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- When bad branding met worse politics  
- Rebranding fascism since ’33  
- It’s a Reich, but it ain’t right  
- History’s cautionary tale  
- The PR disaster of a nation

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### 3. What followed the Weimar Republic and preceded divided post-war Germany?  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Came in like a wrecking Reich  
- Democracy’s tragic sequel  
- The middle child of German regimes  
- Bye-bye Weimar, hello terror  
- The Berlin Wall’s ugly granddad

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### 4. What government was responsible for the Holocaust and started World War II?  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Brought genocide and global war  
- Truly the worst overachiever  
- 0/10, would not recommend  
- War crimes on every level  
- Evil went corporate

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### 5. What is often referred to in discussions of totalitarian regimes and fascism in Europe?  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- The fascist blueprint  
- Textbook authoritarianism  
- The “don’t do this” example  
- Dictatorship: deluxe edition  
- The term that haunts textbooks

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## Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. Adolf Hitler rose to power as the leader of the ______.  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- When democracy failed spectacularly  
- He showed up, and the world wept  
- Rise of the absolute worst  
- Dictatorship with a mustache  
- Bad vibes, worse policies

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### 2. Nazi propaganda and military aggression defined the policies of ______.  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Lies, tanks, and ego trips  
- Truth was the first casualty  
- They weaponized every poster  
- A loudspeaker state  
- News? More like threats with font

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### 3. The Enabling Act of 1933 granted Hitler dictatorial powers in ______.  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Democracy’s self-destruct button  
- Just one vote and boom—dictatorship  
- The legal path to tyranny  
- Checks and balances got checked out  
- When laws said “just kidding”

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### 4. Heinrich Himmler and the SS were instruments of terror in ______.  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Bureaucrats with body counts  
- Terror with uniforms  
- The scariest pencil pushers in history  
- Germany’s horror show  
- SS: Seriously Sinister

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### 5. Allied forces defeated ______ in 1945.  
**Answer:** The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- The right ending to the wrong regime  
- Game over, fascists  
- Spoiler: they lost  
- Bye-bye, bunker  
- No sequel, just war trials

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## Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. What regime ended with Germany’s surrender in 1945?  
A. Holy Roman Empire  
B. Weimar Republic  
C. The Third Reich  
D. German Confederation  
**Answer:** C. The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- The fascist finale  
- Germany unplugged  
- No encore, no applause  
- The war was lost, the world breathed  
- Downfall in Dolby Surround

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### 2. What government was based on the Führerprinzip, centralizing power under Hitler?  
A. The First Reich  
B. The Second Reich  
C. The Third Reich  
D. German Democratic Republic  
**Answer:** C. The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- “I said so” became law  
- Total control, zero chill  
- Führer knows worst  
- One man, one disaster  
- The cult of absolute control

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### 3. Which regime used the swastika as its primary symbol?  
A. The Weimar Republic  
B. The Third Reich  
C. The Holy Roman Empire  
D. The Bundesrepublik  
**Answer:** B. The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- The most misused icon ever  
- Branding for bigotry  
- That logo aged like uranium  
- Flags you want to burn  
- Nothing says evil like that

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### 4. What regime hosted the 1936 Olympics in Berlin as a propaganda event?  
A. The Third Reich  
B. The German Empire  
C. The European Union  
D. East Germany  
**Answer:** A. The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- Gold medals, dark motives  
- PR on a podium  
- Jesse Owens: 1, Racism: 0  
- Hitler’s ironic sports day  
- Fake smiles, real horror

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### 5. What name refers to Nazi Germany’s twelve-year dictatorship?  
A. German Republic  
B. The Second Reich  
C. The Third Reich  
D. United German States  
**Answer:** C. The Third Reich  

**Taglines:**  
- The most infamous dozen years ever  
- A history lesson tattooed on the world  
- Regime of wrong  
- Fascism, but with fireworks  
- Never again—and for good reason
