Nazi controls over the State Flashcards
What aspects of society did the Nazis take control of and try to ‘Nazify’?
The Government Police & Courts Work Religion Education Youth Culture inc. Architecture The Media
Describe Nazi controls over Government. (4)
Creation of a one party state. (All other political parties banned - end of democracy)
Hitler combines position of President & Chancellor - Fuehrer.
Local Government is ‘coordinated’. (Creating the position of Gauleiter (district leader) in every province of Germany.
Describe how the Nazis controlled the lives of workers. (4)
Trade Unions banned.
Unions replaced with the German labour front. (DAF)
The RAD is formed. Reich Labour Front - put unemployed into public works schemes.
Describe how the Nazis controlled education. (4)
Non-Nazi teachers and university professors were sacked; teachers had to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League.
Textbooks were re-written to include Nazi political and racial ideas.
History was taught to glorify Germany.
There was a concentration on physical fitness.
Girls were taught cookery; boys were taught science and maths.
Boys and girls taught racial studies.
Describe how the Nazis created Police State. (4)
Creation of a secret Police - Gestapo.
Blockleiters in each block of flats and street informed on ‘‘grumblers”
Arrests (internment) of thousands of people terrified opponents.
Set up Nazi people’s courts - all judges took an oath of loyalty to the state.
Concentration camps.
Describe how the Nazis used the media to help control Germany. (4)
Creation of a Propaganda Ministry under Josef Goebbels.
Mass rallies at Nuremberg.
Newspapers were censored.
People’s radios were sold very cheaply, but broadcasts were controlled.
Films were controlled to make films that glorified war and pilloried the Jews.
Loudspeakers in public places blared out Nazi propaganda.
Cult of personality - Hitler’s picture was everywhere, and he was portrayed as Germany’s saviour.
