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How effectively did the Nazis deal with their political opponents?
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how the Nazis controlled Germany and its citizens.
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How effectively did the Nazis deal with their political opponents?
THE GESTAPO
(Secret state police)
Force most feared by ordinary German citizens
Reinhard Heydrich (commander.)
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GAVE HIS AGENTS SWEEPING POWERS
Gestapo agent could arrest citizens on suspicion and send them to concentration camps without trial or even explanation
Germans thought they were a lot more powerful than they actually were
Know this due to modern research
As a result many ordinary Germans informed on each other
As they thought the Gestapowould find out anyway
THE SECRET POLICE
THE POLICE AND COURTS
POLICE
Top of jobs in local police forces were given to high ranking Nazis
Reporting directly to Himmler
Under strict instructions to ignore crimes committed by Nazi agents
COURTS
Nazis controlled magistrates, judges and the courts
Therefore opponents of Nazism rarely received a fair trial
Block leaders
Very important in the huge organisation
400,000
One in every street and in every block of flats in every town and city
Salute on their neighbours
Reported suspicious behaviour to party bosses
In this manner political opponents and criminals could be identified and turned over to the police with ease
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Ultimate sanction against their own people
Set up almost as soon as Hitler took power
First camps in 1933
Simply make shift presence in disused factories and warehouses
First Dachau
Although soon purpose built
25,000 people taken in the two month purge after the Reichstag fire
Usually in isolated Rurel areas
Run by SS Death's Head units
WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE WITHIN
Prisoners are forced to do hard labour
Food very limited
Prisoners suffered harsh discipline
Beatings
Random execution
WHO ENDED UP THERE
Jews
Socialists
Communist
Trade unionist
Band by law on 10 May 1933
Churchman
Anyone else brave enough to criticise the Nazis
By late 1930s deaths in camps increasingly common, very few people emerged alive
THE SS
formed in 1925
by fanatics loual to Hitler
After virtually destrouing the SA in 1934, it grew into a huge organisation with many different responsibilities
Led by Heinrich Himmler.
primary responsibility for destroying opposition to Nazism
carrying out racial policies of the Nazis
All Aryans
very highly trained
totally loyal to Hitler.
Death's Head units
Responsible for concentratin campls and the slaughter of the Jews.
Waffen - SS
special armoured regiments, fought alongside regular army
By 1938 the party had 5 million members over half 1 million officials. Its organisation allowed it to supervise every citizen
The Nazis wanted to achieve total control over peoples lives
More control easier it was to put aims into affect
These are the methods of controlling the people
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