Catalogue question 159 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01
What did not exist in Germany during the Nazi era?
- free elections Correct
- press censorship
- arbitrary arrests
- persecution of Jews
Why — for every option
- A — Correct: after 1933, all competing parties were banned and elections were reduced to mere acclamation events without real choice — free elections no longer existed.
- B — Press censorship was comprehensive and systematic, controlled by the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
- C — Arbitrary arrests without rule-of-law oversight, for example by the Gestapo, were widespread.
- D — The systematic persecution and extermination of European Jews in the Holocaust was a central feature of the Nazi regime.
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