CRUSHING OPPOSITION: NAZI POLICE STATE

what was the goal of nazi police state?

terrorise german people

which were the parts of nazi police state?

gestapo, ss, concentration camps and the police and the courts

what was the gestapo?

a secret state police, they could arrest or send to camps, they had informers listening conversations. they were really feared

who was the leader of the SS?

himmler

what wasa the genberal part of the ss?

highly trained aryan men loyal to hitler. their responsability was to crush the opposition and carrying out nazis racial politics

which were the ss subdivisions?

the sd to investigate disloyalty,

the deaths head unitswere the ones in cont¡centration camps to transport and murder jewish,

and the waffen ss fought alongside regular army

what were concentration camps? what was its aim?

nazis ultimate sanction, they used disused fsctories first, wnt ppl who was brave enough to criticise nazis, prisioners had hard labour, aim to corrects oponents of the regime

what were the police and courts?

given to high ranking nazis, they controlled magistrates judges and the courts, basically a self impposed control becuase they wouldnt last long if they didnt do what expected

DESCRIBE THE ROLE AND EVOLUTION OF THE SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) UNDER HIMMLER

ORIGINALLY HITLER’S BODYGUARD, IT GREW INTO A "STATE WITHIN A STATE" WITH THREE SUB UNITS: THE SD (INTELLIGENCE), THE WAFFEN SS (ELITE ARMY), AND THE DEATH’S HEAD UNITS (CAMP GUARDS) THIS MEANT THAT BY 1934, THE SS WAS THE PRIMARY INSTRUMENT OF TERROR, TOTALLY LOYAL TO HITLER AND OPERATING OUTSIDE THE LAW

HOW DID THE GESTAPO EXPLOIT THE GERMAN PUBLIC TO MAINTAIN CONTROL?

THE GESTAPO (SECRET STATE POLICE) RELIED ON A VAST NETWORK OF INFORMERS AND POST BOXES IN EVERY STREET CONSEQUENTLY, THE FEAR OF BEING REPORTED BY NEIGHBOURS CREATED A "CULTURE OF SILENCE" WHERE GERMANS POLICED THEMSELVES TO AVOID CONCENTRATION CAMPS

WHY WAS DACHAU (1933) A CRITICAL ANCHOR FOR NAZI CONTROL

IT WAS THE FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMP, BUILT TO HOLD POLITICAL PRISONERS (COMMUNISTS/SOCIALISTS) [THIS MEANT THAT THE NAZIS HAD A PHYSICAL DETERRENT TO REMOVE OPPOSITION LEADERS IMMEDIATELY AFTER SECURING THE ENABLING ACT