4.2 Nazi control through terror Flashcards
When was Goebbels appointed Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda?
January 1933
When was Hitler appointed Chancellor?
30th January 1933
When was the Reichstag Fire?
27th February 1933
When did Hindenburg use Article 48 to issue decrees that helped the Nazis?
28th February 1933
In what election did the Nazis win 44% of the vote?
5th March 1933
When was the Enabling Act passed?
24th March 1933
When did the Nazis close down Germany’s 18 separate state parliaments?
31st March 1933
When did the Nazi government organise a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses?
April 1933
When was the purge of the teaching profession under the Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service?
7th April 1933
When did the Nazis break into trade union offices and arrest leaders?
2nd May 1933
When were the Social Democrats suspended from the Reichstag?
10th May 1933
When was the Law for Encouragement of Marriage?
1st June 1933
When did Hitler create a new law banning all political parties except the Nazi Party?
July 1933
Hitler’s rule was ___
Totalitarian
Who was in charge of the SS?
Himmler
What does the SS stand for?
Schutzstaffel
By the end of 1934, how many members did the SS have?
400,000
In 1935, how many members of the SS were discharged on moral, racial, and physical grounds?
200,000
What were the SS responsible for?
Enforcing the party’s racial policy and running the concentration camps
What did Hermann Goring set up in 1933?
The Gestapo
Who took over the Gestapo in 1936?
Himmler
What were the Gestapo?
The secret police
What did the Gestapo rely on for information?
Informants. e.g. 54% of all race related charges were initiated by private citizens in Wurzburg
Each block of flats had a block leader to report suspicious behaviour
What powers did the Gestapo have?
- Search houses
- Appoint local block wardens
Who ran the concentration camps?
Himmler
It was illegal to even tell jokes about Hitler under what law?
The Law on Malicious Gossip
Why were concentration camps set up?
They were first set up as temporary prisons and prisoners were taken there to be questioned and ‘re-educated’
By 1939, the Nazis were using the concentration camps for what?
By 1939, the Nazis had built up a huge business in using prisoners for slave labour, extracting raw materials and weapons manufacturing
Which police group ran the concentration camps?
Death’s Head section of the SS
What did judges have to take an oath to?
Hitler
The number of crimes punishable by death rose from what to what?
3 in 1933 to 46 in 1943
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