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The 'Terror State' in Nazi Germany
- The SS
- led by Heinrich Himmler
- Nazi Aryans, highly trained+loyal to Hitler
- Job: destroy opposition and carry out racial policies
- led by Heinrich Himmler
- The Gestapo=
secret state police
- Led by Reinhard Heydrich
- most feared
- Could arrest citizens and send them to
concentration camps solely on
suspicion
- Germans thought they were
extremely powerful so they
informed on each other anyway
- Germans thought they were everywhere but only
50,000 in Germany
- Led by Reinhard Heydrich
- The police and courts
- Top jobs were given to
high-ranking Nazis reporting to
Himmler
- Ignored crimes committed by Nazis
- Opponents to Nazis rarely got a fair trial
- Top jobs were given to
high-ranking Nazis reporting to
Himmler
- Concentration camps
- Led by SS Death's head unit
- For Jews, socialists, communists, trade unionists,
church and anyone who criticised the Nazis
- Hard labor and discipline
- Food shortage
- Beatings and random executions
- Led by SS Death's head unit
Medienanhänge
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