Terror state

Question 1

What were the 4 police organisations that helped to create a terror state

Answer 1

SS, SD, gestapo and orpo

Question 2

Who was the leader of the SS

Answer 2

Himmler

Question 3

When was the SS founded

Answer 3

4th April 1925

Question 4

What were the SS uniform like

Answer 4

Tailored to project authority and fear

Question 5

What were the SS willing to do

Answer 5

Carry out security related duties without regard for legal restraint

Question 6

What was a special branch of the SS best classified as dispositional groups and were trained well

Answer 6

Verfugungstruppe

Question 7

What was the recruiting like for SS

Answer 7

Between the age of 17 and 23 and had to be at least 5”9, also had to be racially pure disciplined and have absolute discipline

Question 8

Why was the SS originally created

Answer 8

To protect Hitler

Question 9

Around how many members did the SS have

Answer 9

Half a million

Question 10

Who did the SS take control of in 1936

Answer 10

SD and gestapo

Question 11

Who were the SD

Answer 11

Nazi intelligence agency (secret service)

Question 12

What activities did the SS partake in

Answer 12

Surveillance

Question 13

Who were the SD under the command of

Answer 13

Heydrich

Question 14

How many members were in the SD by 1934

Answer 14

850 full time

Question 15

When was the SD created

Answer 15

August 1931

Question 16

Who were the gestapo

Answer 16

Secret state police

Question 17

Who did the gestapo often accompany into land

Answer 17

Army

Question 18

How did the gestapo display dominance

Answer 18

House searches and brutal interrogations

Question 19

What did the gestapo enforce

Answer 19

Nazism’s most radical views

Question 20

When did the gestapo operate

Answer 20

Between 1933 and 1945

Question 21

Who was given control of the gestapo in 1934

Answer 21

Himmler

Question 22

Who founded the gestapo

Answer 22

Himmler

Question 23

When was the orpo founded

Answer 23

June 26th 1936

Question 24

Who established the orpo

Answer 24

Himmler

Question 25

Who led the orpo

Answer 25

Daluege

Question 26

By mid 1940 how many men was in the orpo

Answer 26

500

Question 27

What was the orpo

Answer 27

Municipal police, operated within the criminal police at local level monitoring and controlling social and political behaviour

Question 28

What were some jobs the orpo did

Answer 28

Guarded ghettos, facilitated deportations and hunted Jews in hiding

Question 29

Why was there such a variety of policing methods

Answer 29

So they can oversee and control all the different aspects of society

Question 30

How did people react to such policing

Answer 30

Scared as they did not know who to trust and who was a part of these organisations

Question 31

How would the military likely act towards the policing methods

Answer 31

Under threat as their position is being overran and they are becoming outnumbered