Catalogue question 158 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01
The "Third Reich" was a …
- dictatorship. Correct
- democracy.
- monarchy.
- council republic (Räterepublik).
Why — for every option
- A — Correct: the Nazi propaganda term "Third Reich" referred to the totalitarian one-party state under Hitler.
- B — Elections and parties were abolished; the opposite of a democracy.
- C — There was no hereditary monarch; rule was based on the "Führer principle", not dynastic succession.
- D — A council republic is a councils-based democratic system, such as briefly existed in Munich in 1918/19 — the exact opposite of the Nazi dictatorship.
Source: www.bpb.de
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