Paper 2- Why did opposition to the nazis fail
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- Created on: 11-05-13 17:33
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- Why did opposition to the Nazis fail?
- The Gestapo (Geheime Staats Polizei) or secret police.
- was set up and run by Himmler after 1936
- people were arrested and imprisoned without trail
- evidence from informers was used, and people were encouraged to inform on neighbours, colleagues, even their own family
- Creating an atmosphere of fear
- Every block or street had its own warden to report on any behaviour that might suggest non-nazi views
- eg: not giving the Hitler salute
- It was impossible to know who was an informer and who was not.
- Nazi 'people's court' tried people, often in secret.
- Every block or street had its own warden to report on any behaviour that might suggest non-nazi views
- The 'Burning of the Books'
- 1934
- Nazi students took books by Jewish or anti-nazi authors out of libraries and burnt them in huge bonfires.
- Works by H.G Wells and the anti-war novel 'All quite on the western front', written by Erich Maria Remarque.
- Goebbels
- Controlled all forms of communicat-ion
- eg: Books, newspapers, film, newsreels, radio as well as music and the arts
- No non nazi vies were ever heard. Only messages praising Hitler and the Nazis reached the public
- Controlled all forms of communicat-ion
- The Gestapo (Geheime Staats Polizei) or secret police.
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