Nazi Poilce State Topic 2

Question 1

What groups made up the police state

Answer 1

SS

Gestapo

SD

Kripo

Law courts

Question 2

What was the Nazi police state’s aim?

Answer 2

To stop opposition to the Nazis

Question 3

Who was the SS led by

Answer 3

Himmler

Question 4

What was the NAPOLAS

Answer 4

SS boarding schools. Schools producing future SS leaders.

Question 5

How many members did the SS have in 1939

Answer 5

Quarter of a million

Question 6

What two things did the SS run

Answer 6

Nazi concentration camps and later, during WW2 the extermination camps

Question 7

What law removed German people’s rights and allowed people to be sent to camps

Answer 7

The decree for the protection of the people and state

Question 8

What was it called, when was it made and where was the first concentration camp

Answer 8

Called Dachau
State of Bavaria
March 1933

Question 9

6 groups of inmates in the concentration camps

Answer 9

Jews, communists, gypsies, homosexuals, alcoholics, prostitutes

Question 10

What was the ss group that was in charge of specifically running the camps

Answer 10

“Deaths head units”

Question 11

What does the GESTAPO stand for

Answer 11

Secret state police

Question 12

Who was the gestapos leader

Answer 12

Heinrich Müller

Question 13

What was the getsapos job

Answer 13

Hunting down Nazi opponents. They became ‘enemies of the state’

Question 14

Who provided information to the gestapo

Answer 14

The information was supplied by informants. The informants often led the Gestapo into determining who was arrested

Question 15

What did the Gestapo do to their prisoners

Answer 15

Beat them and used cytological torture.

Question 16

What did the 1936 Gestapo law allow

Answer 16

The authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi party. The Gestapo operated without judicial review

Question 17

What was the idea of collective punishment the Gestapo used

Answer 17

It punished the family of the person who committed the offence

Question 18

Who was the SD led by

Answer 18

Reinhard Heydrich

Question 19

What was the SD

Answer 19

The intelligence arm of the SS

Question 20

What was the kripo

Answer 20

The criminal police who investigated general crimes, for example, robberies

Question 21

In 1934 how many Germans were sentenced by the LAW COURTS

Answer 21

250,000

Question 22

What was unfair about the law courts

Answer 22

Often accused and not allowed to defend themselves. There was Nazi judges