Control Flashcards
Goebbels: use of propaganda and censorship
Nazi minister of propaganda - controlled media to promote Nazi ideology
Propaganda emphasises the Aryan superiority + anti-semitism through films, rallies, education
Censorship: banned opposing views - shaped Nazi culture
Repression
Suppression of thoughts, feelings or actions using force or intimidation
Police state
Government that uses police and security forces to control its citizens
Roles of Himmler
Leader of SS, police authority, architect of repression, racial policy enforcer
White Rose Group
Urged Germans to get rid of Hitler
Swing youth/movement
Disliked Nazi ideas/policies, listened to Jazz music, had Jewish friends
Edelweiss pirates
Banned youth group, beat up Nazi officials, helped army deserters, sabotaged railway lines, acted as spies passing on military secrets to other countries
July 1944 bomb plot
Leader, Claus Von Stauffenberg, planed to detonate a bomb under a table during a meeting between Hitler and the other Nazi leaders. Bomb killed four people and injured Hitler, plotters were caught and executed