HAEC IB History 05 Hitler opposition and control

Decree for the Protection of People and State

The proper name of the Reichstag Fire Decree.

4,000 people

The number of communists arrested using the Reichstag Fire Decree.

23 March 1933

The date the Enabling Act was passed.

Other political parties

Banned on 14 July 1933 using the Enabling Act.

Night of the Long Knives

Purge on 30 June 1934 of internal opposition from the SA.

John Hiden quote on opposition

'Dissent and nonconformity must have been widespread. Resistance was not.'

The Confessional Church

Opposition group of Protestant pastors opposed to the Reich Church.

800 pastors

Number of pastors from the Confessional Church sent to concentration camps.

Beck

Army Colonel opposed to Hitler's expansionist foreign policy.

Stauffenberg

Planted a bomb in an attempt to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944.

White Rose

University opposition group in Munich that distributed a series of anti-Nazi pamphlets.

Galen

Catholic Bishop who spoke out against the T4 'euthanasia' campaign leading to it being paused.

3 million

Number of Germans imprisoned for political crimes between 1933-45.

800,000

Number of Germans imprisoned for active resistance between 1933-45.

12,000

Number of Germans imprisoned for high treason between 1933-45.

Jacques Delarue quote about the Nazi Police State (1962)

The Nazi Police State was unparalleled in its ability to 'arouse terror and horror'.

40,000

Number of Gestapo officers for Germany at its height.

Blockleiters (Block Warden)

Name for the 800,000 neighboured spies who watched their neighbours.

A 'consensus dictatorship'

Description of Germany from Professor Gellately based on his analysis of Gestapo files in Wurzburg.

Hannah Arendt definition of totalitarianism

Totalitarianism is not just the creation of the all-powerful state, but 'the erasure of the difference between public and private life.'