4.3 Nazi State: Setting up a Dictatorship

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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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