Bringing Germany into line

Question 1

Explain the Nazi’s attack on sexual liberation

Answer 1

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popular distaste for sex offender and by cracking down on them hitler appealed to the german tradition of lawand order

Question 2

To what extent was the popularity of the Nazi regime a result of the terror state?

Answer 2

stormtroopers, camps- during purges

Question 3

What evidence is there to demonstrate to what extent the popularity of the Nazi regime amongst the judiciary and prosecution service was result of the terror state?

Answer 3

• collective protest became impossible when the professional associations of judges, lawyers and notaries were forcibly merged with the league of National Socialist Lawyers into the Front of German Law
• 2,250 prosecutions against SA members and 420 against SS men were suspended or abandonned - not least under pressure from local stormtrooper bands themselves

Question 4

To what extent was the popularity of the Nazi Regime amongst the civil service a result of opportunism?

Answer 4

Civil serivce:

• many civil servants rushed to preserve their jobs by becoming members of the nazi party during the purges
• they joined the group of those quickly known mockingly as the ‘March Fallen’
• a gagarene ruch that illustrated as few other things did the degree of the opportunism and suave qui peut that were gripping the german population.
• resulting in the allegiance of an overwhelming majority to the new regime

Question 5

What evidence is there to demonstrate to what extent the popularity of the nazi regime amongst the civil service was result of opportunism?

Answer 5

• Between 30 January and 1 May 1933 1.6 million people joined the nazi party
• 80% of Party members in catholic areas such as Koblenz-Trier and cologne -Aachen in the summer of 1933 had only joined within the previous months.

Question 6

To what extent was the popularity of the Nazi regime amongst the judiciary and prosecution service just consent?

Answer 6

• permission without genuine enthusiasm
• there was a distinct threat that Nazi violence would run foul with the law
• A large number of prosecutions were begun by lawyer’s who did not share the new regime’s politically instrumental view of justive
• however the majority of judges and lawyers didnt make any trouble

Question 7

What evidence is there to demonstrate to what extent the popularity of the Nazi regime amongst the judiciary and prosecution service was just consent?

Answer 7

Judiciary and prosecution sevice:

• 300 out of 45000 judges, state prosecutors, and judicial officials in Prussia in 1933 were dismissed or transeferred despite the fact that very few belonged to the nazi Party at the time of Hitler’s appointment
• 586 jewish lawyers and judges were dismissed on the ground race
• no serious objections were raised from the legal profession for these actions

Question 8

To what extent was the popularity of the Nazi regime amongst the judiciary and prosecution service result of opportunism?

Answer 8

• Hitler made promises to improve juges pay and prestige
• lawyers rushed to join the nazi party as the state justic eministers began to make it clear that promotion and career prospects would be harmed if they did not.
• between this point 2,250 prosecutions againsr SA members and 420 against SS men were suspended or abandonned - not least under pressure from local stormtrooper bads themselves

Question 9

Summarise Raimund Pretzel’s view on the popularity of the Nazi Regime?

Answer 9

• in response to the question how had the 56% majority who had voted against the Nazis on 5 March election 1933 caved in so rapidly?
• the simplest reason was fear
• less clear was a kind of exhiliration, the intoxication of unity
• many felt betrayed by the weakness of their former political leader ( Braun, Severing, Hugenberg, Hindenberg) and joined the Nazis as a perverse act of revenge
• the intellectuals believed they could change the face of thr nazi party and shift its direction by becoming a member
• some jumped on the bandwagon and wanted to be part of a perceived success
• in the economic state of the depression many clun to the mechanical routin of normal life; to not go along with the nazis would have meant risking one’s livelihood and to resist would have meant risking one’s life

Question 10

Summarise Jane Caplan’s view on the popularity of the Nazi regime?

Answer 10

• nazi germany was neither a solidaristic national community envisaged by nazi ideology
• nor a nation of submissive, atomized individuals obedient to the dictate of a police state in constant fear
• german remained unconvinced by Nazi programmes and policies
• persecution and terror was confined to particular categories of the population
• many ‘valuable’ germans exercised a kind of self-monitoring self-control that limited their exposure to the terrors of the police state
• they made their peace with the third reich through a mixture of slef-interest and a cultivated indifference to the suffering of its victims

Question 11

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