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Nazi Methods of Control
(Punishments)
- Police State
- Police/the SS had the power to
arrest those that didn't
follow the Nazi ideals and
could arrest without
explanation or trail
- Gestapo (secret police)
- They used any method they could to
find opponents of the regime- like
phone tapping and spying on people
- They were feared because
they could strike at any time or
place on ordinary Germans
- Informers
- People who would inform the
gestapo of opposition. Children
were encouraged to inform on
parents and teachers. They were
everywhere.
- Opponents were
sent for
're-education' in
concentration
camps
- Block Wardens
- Nazis that visited their 'Block' to
collect donations and to check
'political reliability'.
- It was feared because the
reports could determine peoples
careers
- The SS
- Hitlers private army, and
also in charge of
concentration camps
- Almost unlimited power
- Law Courts
- The legal system was controlled by
the Nazis
- There was no trial by jury
- All Judges were Nazis
- Judges had to
swear an oath of
loyalty to hitler
- This was feared as the
number of crimes punishable
by death rose from 3 to 46,
including listening to foreign
radio and telling anti-nazi
jokes
- Concentration Camps
- Used for questioning, torture
and 're-education'
- Prisoners were
used as hard labour
and treated brutally.
- Many died and their
families were sent a
note that the victim had
died of
pneumonia/similar
diseases
- Prisoners wore
badges to indicate
the reason for
imprisonment
- People
feared the
torture and
brutality