Nazi Control Flashcards
What is Censorship?
When unacceptable parts, or whole books, films etc. are officially suppressed
What were Concentration Camps?
Prisons were inmates were treated with great brutality
Who were the Gestapo?
Nazi Secret Police
What is indoctrination?
Brainwashing people into accepting ideas
What is a Police State?
A totalitarian state controlled by a police force
How did the Nazis control Germans through fear?
The Police State
Law Courts
Control of Churches
How did the Nazis control by indoctrination?
Censorship
Propaganda
Name the key features of the Nazi Police State
SS SA Concentration Camps Gestapo Control of legal system
What was the SS’s role in the Police State?
Absolute power over those who did not follow Nazis
Could arrest and imprison without trial
Began to terrorise Germans and hunt down enemies of the state
By 1939 162,000 people had been imprisoned without trial
What was the role of the Gestapo in the Police State?
To seek out opponents of the regime
Phone tapping/ spying
Used informers
How did Hitler control the courts in Germany?
All judges took oath of loyalty to him
Got rid of juries
Trials usually resulted in a guilty verdict
Number of crimes punishable by death rose from 3 in 1933 to 46 by 1943 (listening to foreign radio station/ telling anti-Nazi joke)
Where and when was the first concentration camp set up?
Dachau in 1933
What was Goebbels official job title?
Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda
What methods did Goebbels use to control Germans? hint Not different types of Propaganda
Book burning
No book could be published without his permission
Radio- all had short range so could not pick up foreign stations
Newspapers- against Nazis closed down/ had to get news from Nazi news agency
Reich Chamber of Culture- artists/ actors/ authors had to be a member to get approved work published/ perform
What methods of propaganda did Goebbels use to control Germans?
Posters Radio Cinema Berlin Olympics 1936 Rallies Culture
By 1939, what percentage of German homes had a radio?
70%
Where did the Nazis hold their annual Party rally?
Nuremberg
Why did Hitler want to reduce the influence of the Catholic church?
Catholics owed first allegiance to Pope
Preferred to send children to Catholic youth movement and schools
Catholic schools did not have the same level of control as state schools
What is the name of the agreement Hitler signed with the Catholic church in 1933?
Concordat
What were the terms of the Concordat?
Hitler promised not to interfere with the Catholic church
Catholic church would stay out of politics
When was the Catholic Youth made illegal?
1937
What effect did Hitler’s policies have on the Catholic Church?
Priests in concentration camps seen as martyrs
Church leaders applauded when they appeared in public
Churches packed every Sunday
Who was the leader of the Reich Church?
Ludwig Muller
What was the Reich Church?
Essentially a Nazi Church
Some leaders wore Nazi uniforms and gave the Nazi salute
