Nazi Control and Terror

Question 1

What Key Emergency Decree was never lifted after the Reichstag Fire?

Answer 1

• Decree for the Protection of People and the State
• Allowed Nazis to ban publications and suspend civil rights, detain people in protective custody
• Was never lifted despite being emergency law

Question 2

What announcement did Goebbels make to radio controllers that censored them?

Answer 2

25th March 1937
- Told all radio controllers that they served the Gov and had to express Nazi ideology and what the Gov wants them to broadcast
- Content of radio was controlled, Jews, KPD and SPD purged

Question 3

What was the Editors Law?

Answer 3

• Oct 1933
• Hitler made it a decree that the contents of a press article was the responsibility of the editor
• Now a crime to edit against the Gov or anything harmful to the Third Reich
• Reich Association established to acquire a list of ‘accredited’ journalists

Question 4

What is the Increase of readers and number of Nazi Newspapers 1932-1933?

Answer 4

• 59 w/ 780,000 readers
• 86 w/ 3 million readers

Question 5

What was the Gestapo and what did they do?

Answer 5

Est April 1933 by Herman Göring
- A secret police that operated on its own legal system
- They were spread across Germany to find and eliminated enemies of the state, people could be persecuted for being anti-Hitler or making jokes
- They did not wear uniform, and therefore people were told to be scared that anyone could be a member

Question 6

What was the SS and what did they do?

Answer 6

• Started out as bodyguards for Hitler w 240 men
• After Night of Long Knives and removal of SA they gained greater control
• They ran concentration camps and in 1936 240,000 SS were in charge of the Gestapo

Question 7

What was the Peoples Court and what was its purpose?

Answer 7

Est in Berlin, 1934
- Specifically set up to try people for being traitors to the Third Reich
- 2 Judges with 5 members of the Nazi Party, SS and Armed forces present
- These trails were held privately, and no appeals of the verdict could be made
- Tens of thousands had been through by 1945

Question 8

How did Nazis create a feeling of being watched in the Third Reich?

Answer 8

• Party officials and block wardens created the feeling that you were being watched for any infringement on Nazi policies
• This created fear in the people
• Lack of political discussions were taking place, they were afraid of being reported