The Nazi Dictatorship-Terror State

Question 1

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 1

• Secret police
• Actually were a small group, office based
• Professionals
• Relied on informers for help

Question 2

What were the informers?

Answer 2

• Ordinary people
• Choice/coerced
• Each block had a block leader

Question 3

What were the camps?

Answer 3

• Main purpose to rehabilitate not ‘kill’

- Mostly communists/socialists

Question 4

What were the police+courts?

Answer 4

• Merged Nazi legal association with the state

- Special courts 1934-9 34,000 being tried

Question 5

What were the SS?

Answer 5

• Responsible for arrest of political prisoners
• In charge of police systems
• Led by Himmler
• Lebensborn (breeding arians by rape or free will)
• Programmed to be dehumanised

Question 6

What were the SD?

Answer 6

• B-Tech SS
• Amateurs
• Heydrich was the leader

Question 7

Himmler Fact File

Answer 7

-Leader of the SS from 1929
-He joined the Nazi party in 1923
-Himmler was appointed as military commander to fight
against Red Army advance
-Hitler relieved him of his command
-Himmler therefore betrayed him by attempting A peace treaty with the allies
-Hitler found out and commit suicide whilst in custody