TERROR STATE POLICE Flashcards
(27 cards)
Who ran the Gustapo?
Goering
Goering key events
3
Gustapo
1922 - joined Nazi party
1923 - president of reichstag
1933 - Chancellor of Prussia
Goerings downfall?
1945 lost against RAF, outcasted by germans and captured by allies. Suicide in prison
Who ran the SA?
Ernst Rohm
Ernst Rohm key fact
Murdered night of the long knives on homosexuality charges / rival to Hitler
Who ran the SS?
Himmler
Himmler key facts
3 dates
2 facts
1923 - Joined nazis
1925 - SS part of SA
1934 - independent of SA
killed Ernst Rohm at night of long knives
Head of German police
POLICE SYSTEM
key dates
2
Not abolished
1. 1933 every state had its own police force
2. 1936 centralised by himmler
SA
Key facts2
-Night of the Long Knives - Many killed by SS
-now low status drunks and homosexuals on streets
SS
Role?
-Identification and arrest
-main terror instrument
-later surveillance in conc camps
SS
How many germans imprisoned between when?
1933-1939
Hitler coming to power to beginning of war
225,000
SS
Membership in 1935 - 1939
1935 - 200,000
1939 - 240,000
SS
Historian
Sax
‘its main aim was to create a racially pure Volksgemeinshaft’
Had to aryan to join
GUSTAPO
1. Membership
20,000
Average 50 per city
281 in Dusseldorf (one of biggest cities)
GUSTAPO
Negatives
- Membership
- Skill
- Serving state
GUSTAPO
2. Skill
Low skill - regular police
GUSTAPO
3. Serving state
Served state not Hitler
GUSTAPO -
INFORMANTS
What?
Gustapos small leadership - people had to spy on neighbours and report to Block leaders
GUSTAPO -
INFORMANTS
Issue?
Reports often due to personal grudge
GUSTAPO -
INFORMANTS
Stats
57% reports general public
0.5% Gustapo
SD
Role?
Monitored public opinion eg elections and general convo
SD
Membership
50,000
Just committed Nazis / protestants
Educated 14% had doctorates
SD
Leader
Heydrich
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
When did they become death camps
1942
