The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Quizzes

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Q. Which prominent Nazi does Shirer characterize as "a greasy, shifty-eyed, paunchy little man whose face always reminded this writer of a frog"?


Martin "The Frog" Bormann
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Walther Funk
Hermann "The Toad" Goering
Q. Which Italian statesman once described Hermann Goering as wearing "a great sable coat, something between what automobile drivers wore in 1906 and what a high-grade prostitute wears to the opera"?


Benito Mussolini
King Vittorio Emanuele III
Silvio Berlusconi
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Q. Which prominent Nazi does Shirer describe as being a "dark, dapper, bouncy fellow" and, at the same time, "an icy, efficient, ruthless, bloodthirsty man"?


Adolf Hitler
Hans Frank
Alfred "Dapper Dan" Rosenberg
Hans Landa
Q. Who was the devoted, die-hard-to-the-end Nazi propagandist whom Shirer describes as being a "swarthy, dwarfish young man, with a crippled foot, a nimble mind and a complicated and neurotic personality"?


Hermann Goering
Gregor Strasser
Major Arnold Toht
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Q. About whom does Shirer have this to say? "Unlike some of the shipwrecked young men with whom he lived, he had none of the vices of youth."


Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht
Adolf Hitler
Robinson Crusoe
Ernst Roehm