Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How did the
Nazi political
policy effect
Germany?
- Extending political control
- The Nazi police state used force and terror
- They used their own organisations such as the SS and the Gestapo
- The SS and the SD and the Gestapo were the main forces
- They were all brought under control by heinrich Himmler
- The Nazi police state
- The SS
- The SS was formed in 1925 to act as a bodyguard unit
- It was led by Himmler after 1929
- Members wore black uniforms
- SS stood for protection squad
- Showed total obedience to the Fuhrer
- By 1934 the SS had more than 50,000 members
- All were from the Aryan race
- After the Night of the Long Knives, they became responsible for the
removal of opposition
- Gestapo
- Secret police state set up in 1933 by Goering
- 1936 it became under the control of the SS
- By 1939 it was the most important police state in Germany
- The gestapo could arrest those who are in question of opposition
- Those they arrested would be sent to a concentration camp
- By 1939 there were over 160,000 people under arrest for political crimes
- Control of the legal system
- The Nazis controlled the Reichstag and could makes laws,
Hitler wanted all laws to be under Nazi fashion
- Some judges were removed
- All had to become apart of the
National Socialist League for the
Maintenance of Law.
- Oct 1933 the German Lawyers front was created
- 1934 Hitler controlled the Reichstag, the army and legal system
- It was impossible to escape the power of the Nazis
- Concentration Camps
- The SA and SS ran the new prisons called Concentration camps
- 1st opened in April 1933 in Dachau
- Prisoners were sectioned by different coloured triangles
- They were taken for questioning, hard labour and torture
- If someone died, family would receive a note, saying
they died of illnesses or shot when escaping
- Few survived the Concentration Camps
- Prisoners were used for slave labour
- The were used to extract raw materials such as coal
- Used to manufacture weapons