Statistics for Embarrassing Chapters in German History

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
This failed artist is appointed chancellor of the German Reich	Adolf Hitler	97%
In a classic blunder, Germany invades this country in 1941	Soviet Union	93%
Israelis are kidnapped and killed during the 1972 Olympics in this city	Munich	90%
Nazis promise that their Reich will last this many years (narrator: it didn't)	1,000	85%
Germany provokes this neutral country into joining WWI against them by offering a military alliance with Mexico	United States	84%
This zeppelin catches fire in New Jersey	Hindenburg	83%
Many Germans are convicted of war crimes in this city which had previously been used to hold Nazi rallies	Nuremberg	82%
This WWII encryption machine is cracked by British and Polish codebreakers	Enigma Machine	81%
This company's diesel cars can't pass emissions tests - so they cheat	Volkswagen	81%
This country steals Germany's colonies in Oceania during WWI	Japan	67%
There is no rapid response to this invasion because no one wanted to wake up the Führer	D-Day	62%
East German doctors give Olympic athletes these drugs without their consent, sometimes causing lasting bodily harm	Anabolic Steroids	56%
This Frenchman forces German principalities to join together in a puppet state called "The Confederation of the Rhine"	Napoleon Bonaparte	54%
This aspirin company hires Nazi war-criminals, sells HIV-infected blood, and markets heroin as cough medicine	Bayer	49%
During WWII, German wastes vast amounts of money on these ballistic missiles	V-2	46%
This German duo, famous for "Girl You Know its True" are busted for lip-synching in 1989	Milli Vanilli	40%
Over 1,200 German women are sexually assaulted by migrants on this holiday in 2015, which is intially not reported by German media	New Year's Eve	39%
Desperate to enter the U.S. market, Deutsche Bank loans money to this American after no other bank will	Donald Trump	38%
During the Nazi era, fraudulent anti-Semitic text is taught in German schools	The Protocols of the Elders of {Zion}	32%
21 people die (and 500 are injured) in a stampede at this electronic music festival	The {Love} Parade	23%