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Question | Answer |
What did the Enabling Act allow? | Press and radio Nazi propaganda |
What were trade unions replaced by? | Nazi-controlled 'labour front' that fixed wages and working conditions |
What was the secret police called? | The Gestapo |
Who were sent to concentration camps? | Thousands of communists, socialists and anti-Nazi Germans |
Who controlled concentration camps? | Heinrich Himmler and the SS |
What did Himmler do in 1934? | Take control of the Gestapo |
Who began to criticise Hitler after he didn't change very much in the economy? | Ernst Röhm |
What else did he boast? | The SA (two million men) would replace German army |
Why did this worry Hitler? | He needed army support to stay in power and he feared Ernst Röhm was getting too powerful |
Who did Hitler make a deal with and to do what? | SS to eliminate Ernst Röhm and the SA |
When did the Night of the Long Knives occur? | 30 June 1934 |
Who did Gestapo kill? | Ernst Röhm and 400 leading SA men and other potential threats |
Who died in August 1934? | President Hindenburg |
What did Hitler then do? | Combine offices of President and Chancellor into Führer |
What did all soldiers have to do after that? | Take oath of loyalty to Der Führer |
What kind of state was Nazi Germany? | Totalitarian state |
Who spied on everyone? | Gestapo and the SS |
Who replaced Elected councils? | Nazi officials |
What was the problem with Nazi officials? | They were too afraid to make decisions or got away with corruption that people couldn't expose |
What could this have done? | Destroyed Germany |
Why didn't it? | The Nazi regime didn't last long enough |
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