Nazi Control And Dictatorship Flashcards
2 ways hitler removed internal opposition
- knight of the long knives
- merged role of president and chancellor ( fuhrer)
Night of tge long knives
- june 30th 1934
- sa were disbanded
- 200 sa leaders killed including rohm
- over 400 ppl executed
How did hitler cobtrol the army
Made them swear an oath of loyalty to him 1934
Riechstag fire
- February 1933 riechstag building burned down
- blamed on communist van de lubbe
- communists scapegoated
Which law s as llowed hitler to remove communist opposition
Law for the protection of the people and the state
Ebabling act
Enabling act said hitler could make decisions without riechstag for 4 years
- thus meant democracy had been suspended
What did hitler use the enabling act to do
- make decisions without riechstag
- ban external opposition trade unions , local gov. And otger parties
How did hitler get rid of external opposition ( trade unions)
- jitler saw thrr e m as breeding ground for communism
- may 1933 all trade unions banned and replaced with nazi labour front
Anyone whi fisagreed was sent yo dachau
How did hitker remove external opposition (political parties)
- worried rical oarties could pressure hindenburg to reverse enabling act
- banned all other parties 1933
- officially naking german totalitarian state
- disagree- sent yo camps
When was the night of the long knives
June 30th 1934
Impacts of long knives
- hitler endured full control over party
- sa removed and replaced by ss led by himmler
Police state - gustapo
- secret police focused on anything against nazis
- feared as thry ciild ve anyobe dressed in normsl clothes - they also tspped phones and followed ppl
- relied on infornants to denounce family friends or neighbours
Police state - law courts
- judges gad to swear oath to hitler ( naxis could control who was guilty and not )
- lawters gad to sign up to baxi lawyer’s association
- death penalty expanded from 3 crimes to 46
- concentration camps
Who was goebbels
Gead of ministry of enlightenment whuch organised propaganda and censorship
Nazi propaganda
- hitlwr myth - the idea of hitler being a saviour posted everywhere
- radio - controlled by nazis and used to spread idealogues
- arts - classical gernan mudic promoted ( wagner and beethoven)
Nazi censorship
- jazz banec ( african American roots)
- books - list of vanned books published- in berlin 20,000 books burbed by ss in mass nongire
- universities - by 1938 3000+ lecturers removed for not teaching Nazi ideology
- art - only perfect aryan men abd women desplayed in art galleries
Seperate spheres
Idea that women should raise kids abd ptmrotect hone wbule men should fight and protect germany
5 ways nazis controlled women
- 3 ks
- lebensbirn
- mothers cross
- work
- limited rights