Control In Nazi Germany Flashcards
Police State
A country where the police and other organisations linked to the police (including the courts) are very powerful and act on behalf of the governments
Heinrich Himmler
The head of the SS
A loyal Nazi who personally reported to Hitler
The Gestapo
Undercover secret police
Spied on people
Had the power to arrest
Listened for people to bad mouth Hitler
The SS
Set up in 1925 and wore black uniforms
They were originally Hitler’s personal bodyguards
Who Reported to Himmler
Regular Police and Law Courts
The Gestapo
The SS
Concentration Camps
Nazi Propoganda
Joseph Goebells
Newspapers
Films
In books at the theatre and in music performances
On the radio
In public (banners…)
Art and Culture in Nazi Germany
Literature:
There was a list of banned books (cause they were anti-war, anti-Nazi or written by bad influences like Jews)
Around 2500 writers left Germany during 1933 to 1945
Art:
Art had portray heroic German figures
Modern Art was deemed perverted
The Nazis public ally burnt 5000 paintings
Resistance and Opposition to Hitler
Grumbling or Moaning
Passive Resistance
Open Opposition
Attempts to Kill Hitler
Grumbling or Moaning
The Lowest type of Opposition
In their own homes people could tell an anti-Nazi joke or complain about the Nazi regime
Passive Resistance
A public show of opposition
People could refuse to ‘Heil Hitler’
Not give money to Hitler Youth collecting funds
Open Opposition
Swing Youth - played Jazz music and had Jewish friends
White Rose Group - Made anti-Nazi posters, leaflets and put up graffiti
Edelweiss Pirates - beat up Nazi officials and aided army deserters
Some groups shared military secrets and sabotaged railway lines
The Catholic Church spoke out about killing the disabled
Attempts to Kill Hitler
There were around 50 attempts on Hitler’s life
The Kreisau Circle - never actually did anything
The Beck-Goerdeler Group - contacted the British and was responsible for the 1944 July Bomb Plot
