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Life in Nazi Germany
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History Mind Map on Life in Nazi Germany, created by ak_ on 08/06/2013.
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Life in Nazi Germany
Nazi control of Germany
Concentration camps
First set up in 1933 as makeshift prisons for the Nazi regime
Run by SS head units
Prisoners forced to do hard labour and barely fed
Three main groups were Jews, Socialists and Communists
Gestapo
Secret state police
led by Reinard Heydrich
had power to send citizens to camp without trial
Germans overestimated its pwer
Some germans reported others to Gestapo
SS
Led by Heinrich Himmler
2 subdivisions: Death's head and Waffen SS
Death's heads persecuted and killed Jews
Waffen SS fought in the regular army
Formed in 1925 and replaced SA
Highly trained and very loyal
Police and Courts
The Nazis controlled local police forces.
The police were given special powers to arrest and detain.
Nazi agents were immune from the law
Courts were controlled; Nazi opponents rarely got fair trials
Nazis often became high ranking police officers
Propaganda
Aims
To promote loyalty to Hitler and the Nazis
To promote traditional family values
To persuade people that the Communists and Jews were the enemies of germnay
To persuade young people to join the Hitler Youth
Josef Goebbels=Minister for Enlightenment and Propaganda
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