How did the Nazis maintain control of Germany?
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- Created on: 27-05-15 15:37
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- How did the Nazis maintain their control of Germany?
- The SA
- Uniform: Brown Shirts, swastika armbands.
- Leader: Ernst Rohm.
- Role: Hitler's private army.
- Important Events: The Night of Long Knives.
- The **
- Uniform: Black Shirts and swastika armbands.
- Leader: Heinrich Himmler.
- Role: A private body guard for Hitler. Later became main means of terrorising and intimidation.
- Important Events: The Night of Long Knives.
- The Gestapo
- History: Originally the Prussian secret police run by Goering. After June 1936 it became the state secret police.
- Leader: Heinrich Himmler.
- Role: Tapped telephones, intercepted mail and spied on people. Had a network of informed and anyone who spoke out against the Nazis could be reported to the Gestapo.
- Reputation: They were the biggest threat to opponents of Hitler.
- Newspapers
- No national newspapers but 4700 local ones.
- Some papers owned by big Jewish publishing firms.
- Circulation of Nazi newspapers limited.
- Goebbels took over most publishers.
- He put controls on what journalists could write.
- Set up a press agency to tell newspapers what the news should be.
- Radio
- A lot of radio was local, states like Prussia had their own radio.
- Goering was determined to control radio in Prussia and wanted to control all of radio in a Reich Radio Company.
- Reich Radio Company controlled all local radio stations.
- Millions of cheap radios were made and by 1939 70% of households had a radio.
- 6000 loud speaker pillars were erected in public squares.
- Films
- Germans were used to films which were made to a high standard and very entertaining.
- Goebbels encouraged new films. Most were love stories, comedies or adventures.
- The SA
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