Repression and control in Germany 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryWWII and Nazi Germany 1939-1945GCSEAQA Created by: asho glenoCreated on: 12-04-15 12:44 The aim for Germany was for it to be a totalitarian state, meaning no rival parties, no ploitical debate... and ordinary citizens must divert their energy into serving the state and doing what the leader wants 1 of 22 The ** - It was formed in 1925 as... Hitler's personal bodyguards, but became the party's own police force after the night of long knivees 2 of 22 It's leader was... Heinric Himmler 3 of 22 ** men were... Aryans who were higly trained 4 of 22 They had the primary responsibility of destroying... opposition to Nazism and carrying out racial policies 5 of 22 They had unlimited power to arrest people without trial and ran... concentration camps 6 of 22 Death's Head units were responsible for concentration camps and... the slaughter of Jews 7 of 22 The Waffen-** were special ** armoured regiments who fought alongside... the regular army 8 of 22 The Gestapo - It was originally the Prussian secret police run by... Goering but after June 1936, it became the state police 9 of 22 The Gestapo tapped telephones, intercepted mail and... spied on people 10 of 22 They had a network of informers around Germany who... reported to them if they heard about anything against the Nazis 11 of 22 They could arrest citizens on suspicion and send them to... concentration camps without trial or explanation 12 of 22 Many citizens caught out others as they thought... they would be captured anyway 13 of 22 Police, Courts and Prisons - When the Nazis came to power, the Nazis didn't get rid of the existing system but... took control of them 14 of 22 The police were under the control of the... ** and the judegs took an oath of loyalty to Hitler 15 of 22 Police were to ignore... Nazi crimes 16 of 22 Crimes punishable by death included listening to foreign radio stations or... publishing anti-goveernment leaflets 17 of 22 Concentration Camps - They were first used as temporary prisons that were set up by the... SA and ** in disused factories or warehouses or in barbed wire enclosues 18 of 22 Some were taking overflow from prisons while others specialised in... particular kinds of prisoners, such as trade unionists or young people 19 of 22 Prisoners were forced to do hard labour, food was limited and they suffered hard... discipline, beatings and random executions 20 of 22 If someone was killed, a letter was sent home saying they... died of Pneumonia 21 of 22 By 1939, they had built up a massive buisness using their prisoners as... slave labour, extracting raw materials and manurfacturing weapons 22 of 22
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