Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nazi control of Germany
- SS
- formed in 1925 from fanatics loyal to Hitler.
- virtually destroyed SA in 1934 -
grew into huge organisation with
many different responsibilities
- Aryans
- responsibility - destroy opposition
to Nazism and carry out racial
policies of Nazis
- Subdivisions: -Death's Head Units -
responsible for concentration camps
and slaughter of Jews
- - Waffen-SS - special armored
regiments that fought alongside army
- Gestapo
- most feared by ordinary
German citizen
- Could arrest citizens on suspicion and send
them to concentration camps without trial or
even explanation
- Police and Courts
- helped prop up Nazi dictatorship
- ignore crimes committed by Nazi agents
- political snooping
- opponents of Nasism rarely
recieved a fair trial
- Concentration Camps
- Nazis ultimate sanction against
their own people
- prisoners were forced to do hard labour
- Jews, socialists, communists,
trade unionists, churchmen and
anyone else brave enough to
criticise the Nazis ended up there