Nazi Control of Germany
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- Created on: 15-05-13 10:34
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- Nazi Control of Germany 1933-1945
- ** 1925
- Led by Heinrich Himmler
- Men were Aryans and highly trained and loyal to Hitler
- Gestapo (secret state police)
- Could arrest citizens on suspicion and send them to concentration camps
- Ordinary Germans told of each other thought they would find out anyway
- Police and courts
- Under strict instructions to ignore crimes committed by Nazi agents
- Controlled magistrates, judges and courts - opposition to Nazism rarely received fair trial
- Concentration camps
- Usually in isolated rural areas
- Prisoners forced to do hard labour
- Food limited, suffered harsh discipline, beatings and random executions
- Jews, socialists, communists, trade unionists, churchmen and anyone who opposed Nazis ended up there
- ** 1925
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