World War Two Quiz - Wehrmacht Slant

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1. Who was nicknamed the 'Desert Fox'?
Erwin Rommel
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Galland
2. Who commanded the Luftwaffe?
Hermann Goering
Hermann Hesse
Herman and the Hermits
Herman Munster
3. Who commanded the Kriegsmarine?
Karl Donitz
Karl Lagerfeld
Karl Urban
Karl Marx
4. Who commanded the SS and Gestapo?
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Hoffmann
Heinrich Heide
Heinrich Schliemann
5. What was the German code-name for the 22nd June, 1941 invasion of Russia?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarino
Operation Barbara
Operation Baa Baa Black Sheep
6. 'Case White' (Fall Weiss) targetted which country?
France
Poland
Czechoslvakia
Peru
7. 'Case Yellow' (Fall Gelb) targetted which countries?
Denmark, Finland and Estonia
Spain, France and Andorra
The Low Countries and France
Andorra, Monaco and the Vatican
8. U-boat kapitan, Gunther Prien became a household name in Germany for sinking which battleship?
HMS Missouri
USS Endeavour
HMS Royal Oak
HMS Ark Royal
9. The Eastern Medal was awarded to Wehrmacht troops who served in Russia between 15 November, I941 and 15 April,1942. It was cynically known by German troops as?
The Final Victory Badge
Order of Bismarck
The Knights Cross of the Frozen Feet
The Frozen Meat Medal
10. What was/is a fallschirmjager?
A political officer that keeps a close eye on combat troops
A special operative that sabotages enemy aircraft
A paratrooper
A meteorological expert, German official who kept the OKW informed of changing weather conditions hourly
11. Who commanded the fallschirmjager?
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Russell
Kurt Student
Kurtz
12. The most disastrous episode for the fallschirmjager during World War Two?
Not accurately predicting weather condition before Operation Barbarossa
Losing thousands of Reichmarks in weather balloons in Iceland because they were drunk on Finlandia vodka and did not secure them properly
The Battle of El Alamein
The Battle of Crete
13. Which German Luftwaffe general was mocked and satirized by US propaganda because every inch of footage of him and every photograph of him has him smiling like a Nazi Cheshire Cat?
Albert Einstein
Albert Finney
Albert Kesselring
Eddie Albert
14. When Adolf Hitler bit the capsule and squeezed the trigger... who succeeded him as 'Fuhrer' for two days, sixteen hours twenty minutes and thirty seconds... give or take?
Wilhelm Keitel
Albert Speer
Karl Donitz
Josef Mengele
15. Which German field marshal surrendered to the 62nd Russian army at Stalingrad, only four hours after being promoted to field marshal?
The Red Baron
Erich von Manstein
Friedrich Paulus
Heinz Guderian
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