How Did Hitler Control Germany? (1933-39)

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Terror

** - Hitler's bodyguards, racially pure and Nazi Elite. 50,000 strong by 1934

Concentration Camp - Run by **/Himmler. Dachau was the first (1933), Different catagories of prisoner

Courts - All judges and lawyers were members of the Nazi-controlled German Lawyers Front

Gestapo - Secret police established 1933. Informants used to find crime and by 1939 they had arrested 160,000 people for civil disobedience. Blockeiters (Wardens) would patrol neighbourhoods

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Propaganda

Newspapers - 1600 shut down by Goebbels by 1935. All news censored

Radio - 16mil cheap radios sold by 1942 to people so they could listen to Hitler's speeches

Cinema -  1000+ films produced e.g. Eternal Jew. 45min compulsory Nazi film before actual film

Sport - Berlin Olympics 1936 showed the world the strength of the Aryans

Rallies - 1934 Nuremburg rallies - 0.25 million attended - very ordered and organised

Arts/Culture - Banned Jazz music and most other western music

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Opposition (1933)

Young People - Edelweiß pirates beat up Hitler Youth patrols. Swing Kids played Jazz music (mostly middle/upper class childeren, mostly passive)

Workers -  No outlet, 1935 saw 25000 strikes and 4000 arrests

Religion - Catholic concordat, Pastors Emergency League and some priests opposed the Nazis

Political - SDP leagally resisted, sumggled anti-Nazi pamphlets. KDP broken up by Gestapo in 1935

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Opposition (1939)

Young People - Published anti-Nazi leaflets, executed for it. Edelweiß pirates moved onto beating officials and heads of the Gestapo

Religions - Martin Niemoller sent to concentration camp 1937-45, Dietrich Bahnhoffer opposed Jew taking, executed after 1944 bomb plot

Elites - 1934+ war angers Germany, paramilitary groups SD sabotaged rail lines, Kreisaw Circle bomb plot failed in 1944, 5000 were executed as a result

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