Catalogue question 157 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01
In 1933, the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler established … in Germany.
- a dictatorship. Correct
- a democratic state.
- a monarchy.
- a principality.
Why — for every option
- A — Correct: after seizing power, the National Socialists established, through the Enabling Act and forced coordination (Gleichschaltung), a totalitarian dictatorship without separation of powers or basic rights.
- B — The opposite is true: parties were banned, elections abolished, and the democracy of the Weimar Republic destroyed.
- C — There was no hereditary head of state; Nazi rule was not a monarchy.
- D — A principality is ruled by a prince; the Nazi regime was a totalitarian Führer state, not a principality.
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