Nazi Control And Dictatorship Flashcards
(47 cards)
2 ways hitler removed internal opposition
- knight of the long knives
- merged role of president and chancellor ( fuhrer)
Night of tge long knives
- june 30th 1934
- sa were disbanded
- 200 sa leaders killed including rohm
- over 400 ppl executed
How did hitler cobtrol the army
Made them swear an oath of loyalty to him 1934
Riechstag fire
- February 1933 riechstag building burned down
- blamed on communist van de lubbe
- communists scapegoated
Which law s as llowed hitler to remove communist opposition
Law for the protection of the people and the state
Ebabling act
Enabling act said hitler could make decisions without riechstag for 4 years
- thus meant democracy had been suspended
What did hitler use the enabling act to do
- make decisions without riechstag
- ban external opposition trade unions , local gov. And otger parties
How did hitler get rid of external opposition ( trade unions)
- jitler saw thrr e m as breeding ground for communism
- may 1933 all trade unions banned and replaced with nazi labour front
Anyone whi fisagreed was sent yo dachau
How did hitker remove external opposition (political parties)
- worried rical oarties could pressure hindenburg to reverse enabling act
- banned all other parties 1933
- officially naking german totalitarian state
- disagree- sent yo camps
When was the night of the long knives
June 30th 1934
Impacts of long knives
- hitler endured full control over party
- sa removed and replaced by ss led by himmler
Police state - gustapo
- secret police focused on anything against nazis
- feared as thry ciild ve anyobe dressed in normsl clothes - they also tspped phones and followed ppl
- relied on infornants to denounce family friends or neighbours
Police state - law courts
- judges gad to swear oath to hitler ( naxis could control who was guilty and not )
- lawters gad to sign up to baxi lawyer’s association
- death penalty expanded from 3 crimes to 46
- concentration camps
Who was goebbels
Gead of ministry of enlightenment whuch organised propaganda and censorship
Nazi propaganda
- hitlwr myth - the idea of hitler being a saviour posted everywhere
- radio - controlled by nazis and used to spread idealogues
- arts - classical gernan mudic promoted ( wagner and beethoven)
Nazi censorship
- jazz banec ( african American roots)
- books - list of vanned books published- in berlin 20,000 books burbed by ss in mass nongire
- universities - by 1938 3000+ lecturers removed for not teaching Nazi ideology
- art - only perfect aryan men abd women desplayed in art galleries
Seperate spheres
Idea that women should raise kids abd ptmrotect hone wbule men should fight and protect germany
5 ways nazis controlled women
- 3 ks
- lebensbirn
- mothers cross
- work
- limited rights
Lebensborn
- set up yo increase bithrate
- support for unmarried aryan pregnant women
Mothers cross
Award given for gaving children - prestige and status
Womens work
- work restricted snd many women lost thrir jobs
- ( backfired) many mothers refused to go back to work when ww2 broke out
Why did nazis reform schools
They wanted to brainwash children in order to create future nazis who were loyal
How were schools reorganised
- new lessons like nazi theory lessons that tought jews were inferior and tge cause of germanys problems
-genders selarated gifls learnec cooking and sex ed shild bots did dports , physics et - all children taught eugenics
How did the church resist the Nazis
The Confessional Church held secret meetings and circulated anti-Nazi propaganda but their leader Pastor Martin Niemoller was arrested.