TERROR STATE 1 Flashcards
(13 cards)
THE REICHSTAG
Enabling Act
What is it?
For Hitler to independently make laws
THE REICHSTAG
Enabling Act
facts 2
Only passed 7 more laws after
Renewed every 4 years
THE REICHSTAG
Useful?
Not really
mainly for propaganda
THE CABINET
How many times did they meet?
1933 - 72
1933 - 4
1936 - 0
THE CABINET
Important?
Not really
at first only 3 nazis, increased but then irrelevant - didn’t believe in councillor gov
THE REICH CHANCELLERY
What is it?
Closer form of government than the reichstag
Passed laws
THE REICH CHANCELLERY
Leader?
what did he do
Hans Lammers - controlled info that reached Hitler / left Hitler
THE LAW
What is the Fuhrenprinzip
Hitlers word is law
used old laws and tweaked them into his own
THE LAW
Constitution
Didn’t exist past 1933
Enabling Act
COURTS
Judges were _____ but not _____
Why did this anger Hitler?
Arrested and prosecuted SA and SS for street violence
COURTS
How did Hitler coordinate judges?
April 1933 - merged lawyers with NSDNP lawyers
-had to swear oath and wear swatstikas on robes
COURTS
Two types of courts
Special Courts 1933 - Handle political opponents quickly (as soon as he came to power)
Peoples Courts 1934 - After Reichstag fire. Bigger political cases
COURTS
Historian?
Hiden
Judiciary effectively worked in favour of the police
