Nazi Control and Terror Flashcards
What Key Emergency Decree was never lifted after the Reichstag Fire?
-Decree for the Protection of People and the State
-Allowed Nazis to ban publications and suspend civil rights, detain people in protective custody
-Was never lifted despite being emergency law
What announcement did Goebbels make to radio controllers that censored them?
25th March 1937
- Told all radio controllers that they served the Gov and had to express Nazi ideology and what the Gov wants them to broadcast
- Content of radio was controlled, Jews, KPD and SPD purged
What was the Editors Law?
Oct 1933
-Hitler made it a decree that the contents of a press article was the responsibility of the editor
-Now a crime to edit against the Gov or anything harmful to the Third Reich
-Reich Association established to acquire a list of ‘accredited’ journalists
What is the Increase of readers and number of Nazi Newspapers 1932-1933?
-59 w/ 780,000 readers
-86 w/ 3 million readers
What was the Gestapo and what did they do?
Est April 1933 by Herman Göring
- A secret police that operated on its own legal system
- They were spread across Germany to find and eliminated enemies of the state, people could be persecuted for being anti-Hitler or making jokes
- They did not wear uniform, and therefore people were told to be scared that anyone could be a member
What was the SS and what did they do?
-Started out as bodyguards for Hitler w 240 men
-After Night of Long Knives and removal of SA they gained greater control
-They ran concentration camps and in 1936 240,000 SS were in charge of the Gestapo
What was the Peoples Court and what was its purpose?
Est in Berlin, 1934
- Specifically set up to try people for being traitors to the Third Reich
- 2 Judges with 5 members of the Nazi Party, SS and Armed forces present
- These trails were held privately, and no appeals of the verdict could be made
- Tens of thousands had been through by 1945
How did Nazis create a feeling of being watched in the Third Reich?
-Party officials and block wardens created the feeling that you were being watched for any infringement on Nazi policies
-This created fear in the people
-Lack of political discussions were taking place, they were afraid of being reported
