The Police State and Terror - Germany
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- Created on: 07-05-18 16:34
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- The Police State and Terror
- The Courts
- Judges to administer harsher sentences and new laws for political crimes
- People's courts to try enemies of the state
- From 1939, judges had to study Nazi beliefs
- Nazis replaced senior officials and the ** group leader was appointed minister of justice
- The **
- Originally Hitler's bodyguard force, established in 1925. It eventually dominated the police state
- 1929 - Himmler became its head. He created the SD in 1931 (they acted at Hitler's secret intelligence)
- Himmler took control of the police in 1934 and in 1935 only Aryans could join
- In 1936 the police and Gestapo were answerable to Himmler
- The ** preserved the Nazi regime. It was made up of the SD, the Gestapo, the Kripo and the Waffen ** - it was responsible for policing and military functions
- The ** were responsible for the New Order and Himmler was responsible for consolidating German nationhood
- Himmler was responsible for the resettling of ethnic Germans and eliminating groups such as the Jews and gypsies
- The Gestapo
- The secret police - found Nazi opponents and arrested them
- Around 20,000-40,000 members
- Relied on information from wardens, which meant they were not always greatly effective
- The impact of war
- Policing expanded
- Military divisions increased from 3 to 35
- The New Order was created in occupied lands
- Extermination and resettling based on race and ideology developed
- Concentration camps
- 1933
- 3000 members. They were originally places for re-education, torture and an end to communism
- 1936
- Camps focused on asocials, criminals and homosexuals
- 1937
- Individuals not fitting into the volksgemeinschaft were imprisoned
- 1942
- The camps became camps for the extermination of Jews: in September 1939 there was 25,000 prisoners; in Jan 1945 there was 715,000
- 1933
- The Courts
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