The Police State & terror Flashcards
Primary reason the regime survived?
destroyed opposition - through creation of police state.
4 main points within arguing the police state?
1) the courts
2) The SS
3) The Gestapo
4) Concentration Camps
What was implemeted in the courts in 1939?
judges had to study Nazi beliefs & carry out gov wishes or removed.
Other implementations in the court?
judges instructed to issue harsher sentences & new laws for political offenders.
‘People’s Court’ - try enemies of the state
What was the SS’s role in Germany and under Hitler?
became ‘state within a state’ & came to dominate the police state.
Who became head of SS in 1929 and what did he create?
Heinrich Himmler - created SD (secret intelligence wing of SS) in 1931
1934 - head of Gestapo in Prussia
1936 - all police & gestapo under Himmler
What were the 4 terror groups in the SS and what were their roles?
SD - Waffen SS - Gestapo - Kripo
roles included policing, intelligence gathering and later military functioning
What creation were the SS also responsible for?
‘New Order’ - elimination of jews & racial purity back
What were the Gestapo and what was its role?
secret state police - find opponents of Nazis and arrest them - sent to concentration camps.
How many roughly were in Gestapo
32,000 roughly
What did the gestapo primarily rely on for arresting non-nazis?
wardens and informers - wardens responsible for 50 houses each
denunciations
How many block wardens were there and were they popular?
about 2 million - unpopular in working class areas - communist sympathizers
give 4 impacts of war on thee police state
1) role of policing & security expanded
2) military increased from 3 divisions to 35
3) ‘New Order’ created in occupying lands
4) exterminating non-nazis developed
give examples from 1933 - 1945 in terms of how many ppl in concentration camps?
1933 = 3,000 inmates
Sept 1939 = 25,000 ppl
Dec 1942 = 88,000 ppl
Jan 1945 = 714,000 ppl
Who was put into concentration camps in 1933?
opps of regime - re-educated on Nazism
mainly communists and socialists
