9.1 Fear And Terror: Repression And The Police State

Question 1

Dissident

Answer 1

Someone who criticizes or goes against dictatorship

Question 2

Genocide

Answer 2

The intent to destroy a mass ethical or racial group

Question 3

Who was Himmler?

Answer 3

-Head of the SS
- in charge of all police forces

Question 4

3 sections of the SS

Answer 4

• SD looked after ‘security’ they could arrest anyone, search homes and seize property
• Waffen SS elite unit army
• Death’s Head Units ran concentration camps and death camps

Question 5

When was the SS set up?

Answer 5

• 1925 originally Hitler bodyguards
  -Schutzstaffel

Question 6

What were concentration camps?

Answer 6

• large prisons for enemies of the state
  To ‘correct’ people
  Jews, Roma and Sinti, political opponents and anyone who criticized Hitler
  -toured or worked to death

Question 7

Who were the Gestapo and what did they do?

Answer 7

• secret police
• spied on people who might be a threat
• power to arrest, imprison without trial and torture anyone
• network of informers report anyone who moaned about the Nazis
• people didn’t know who they were(surveillance state) (fear and paranoia)