Activity 6: Cloze Activity

Read through the following text.  Some words have been missed out.  You can find these words on the next page.  Using your knowledge place the correct words in the blanks so the passage makes sense.  If you need help, go to the next page for the words.

After the _______________________ was passed, nothing could be done to stop the Nazis enacting any laws that they wanted. 

Back in 1920, the young Nazi Party had issued its so-called “Twenty-five Points” which set out what they would do if they were ever to come to________.   

One of the points said that, “Only those of German blood…may be members of the nation.  No ______ may be a member of the nation”.    

Hitler had always made it clear that, in his opinion, the Jews were the source of all Germany’s______________.   

In his book ________________, which he wrote whilst in prison in 1924, Hitler frequently repeated his claims against the Jews. 

It was not surprising, therefore, that on 7 April 1933, just two weeks after the Enabling Act was passed, the Nazis passed their first piece of ___________________ legislation.   

The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service meant that all _________________ civil servants at every level were dismissed. 

Four days later this was followed up with a decree which defined the term ‘non-Aryan’ as anyone who had one parent or grandparent who was “_______________________”.