the main features of the nazi police state

Question 1

What was the stong grass route presence?

Answer 1

Villages, towns and cities where sub devided into blocks each with a loyal nazi watching over them
Any anti nazi behavure noticed was reported to police and gestapo

Question 2

The ss

Answer 2

After the night if the long knives the SS became responsible for removal if all nazi opposition in germany
There where over 50,000 members who all swore loyalty to hitler

Question 3

The gestapo

Answer 3

Could arrest abd imprisson anyone susspected of opposing the nazis.
Most where sent to concentration camps
This was a secret police force set up in 1933

Question 4

The ‘enemies of state’ lists

Answer 4

Created by local police and passed to SS

When arested people made to sign an order for protective custody before being sent ti a concentration camp without trial

Question 5

Concentration camps

Answer 5

First opened in march 1933
Used to imprisson abyone who went against nazi state
Prisons where questioned tortured abd used for hard labour
Most where worked to death

Question 6

Control of the legal system

Answer 6

All judges had to sign up to the nazi ideals and those who refused where dismissd
Lawyers had to join the german lawyers front
Ministrr of justuce and hitler where known to review and alter scentences considered too lenient