Terror and persuasion

Question 1

SS

Answer 1

Formed in 1925
As a personal bodyguard for Hitler

Question 2

How did the night of the long knives change the role of the SS?

Answer 2

Made them responsible for the removal of opposition
Grown to a large number of 250,000 by 1939

Question 3

The gestapo

Answer 3

Secret police force

Question 4

What was the role of the gestapo?

Answer 4

Go undercover to get information
Arrest and send people in suspicion of opposing Germany to concentration camps

Question 5

SD

Answer 5

Intelligence body for the Nazis

Question 6

Role of the SD

Answer 6

Obtain information of people who could potentially oppose the state and remove them

Question 7

Early Concentration camps

Answer 7

Imprisoned political prisoners and treat them with brutality
High mortality rates

Question 8

Gleichschaltung

Answer 8

All laws had to obey Nazi ideology and were biased towards it

Question 9

What did judges have to be apart of?

Answer 9

Nationalist socialist league for maintenance of the law

Question 10

What did lawyers do?

Answer 10

Have to swear an oath to Hitler
Be part of Nazi lawyers association
Defence lawyers positions weakened in criminal trials
Have to wear swastika and Nazi eagle

Question 11

People’s court

Answer 11

Specifically judged people on trial for treason against Hitler

Question 12

Minister of justice job

Answer 12

Ensure judges weren’t too lenient
Allowed Hitler to exercise his power and change sentences

Question 13

How were criminals punished?

Answer 13

Chosen by local prosecutors
Who were part of Nazi lawyers association rather than standard punishment
So more likely to pose a harsher punishment
Rather than released at end to sentence sent to concentration camp

Question 14

Ministry for popular entertainment and propaganda?

Answer 14

Set up by Goebbels
Indoctrinated German people leading them to never question the Nazi beliefs

Question 15

How did the Nazis use cinema?

Answer 15

To make films demonising opponents and showing them as morally right
Spread antisemitism
Discredit any opponents

Question 16

Aims of Nuremberg rallies

Answer 16

Promote how powerful they are
Intimídate possible opponents by showing how many people support them
Create sense of indoctrination as citizens feel part of such a large community and see their strength
Group though = people less likely to protest

Question 17

Literature control

Answer 17

Books censored
Students began burning books written by Jews or communists
Non Nazi newspapers closed

Question 18

Censorship of art

Answer 18

‘Degenerate’ modern art ie dada or Bauhaus banned

Question 19

Reich press law

Answer 19

Banned non Nazi newspapers

Question 20

How did the death penalty change?

Answer 20

Capital crimes increased from 3 to 46

Question 21

How did the number of crime change?

Answer 21

Halved

Question 22

How did the Nazis use concentration camps to maintain control?

Answer 22

All forms of possible oppositions removed and became helpless
Included groups they persecuted eg Jews and Romani who have motivation for opposition
Leaks of conditions caused fear and a deterrent to resist

Question 23

Police state

Answer 23

What Hitler transformed Germany into
Required subservience to the state and monitored citizens lives

Question 24

Control of the press

Answer 24

Only newspapers that were controlled by Nazis could be printed and distributed

Question 25

People’s receiver

Answer 25

Radios sold cheaply so as many people could have access to Nazi broadcasting messages

Question 26

Reich broadcasting operation

Answer 26

All radios were controlled by Goebbels = propaganda

Question 27

How did Nazis control architecture?

Answer 27

‘Projecting’ the Nazi power by building stadiums for rallies

Question 28

How did Nazis control music?

Answer 28

Banned Jewish composers
Banned jazz
Promoted Jewish composers

Question 29

So how did the Nazis control citizens?

Answer 29

Used the police state to fear them into obedience and away from resistance
But indoctrination of schools and media and rallies to make them loyal to the state
And censorship keeps them within Nazi ideas of all having same opinions