The police state

Question 1

Policing the police state - SS (Protection Squad)

Answer 1

• Heinrich Himmler in charge
• wore black uniforms
• 1936 - controlled all of Germany’s police and security forces

Question 2

Policing the police state - SD (Security Service)

Answer 2

• Reinhard Heydrich in charge
• uniformed
• spied on all known opponents and critics of the Nazi Party and the German govt

Question 3

Policing the police state - Gestapo (Secret State Police)

Answer 3

• Reinhard Heydrich in charge
• no uniforms
• prosecuted anyone who said or did anything critical of the Nazis or the govt
• relied mainly on informants
• feared by general public

Question 4

Policing the police state - Concentration camps

Answer 4

• people put ‘under protective arrest’ for doing things the Nazis disapproved of
• inmates were ‘undesirables’ (prostitutes, homosexuals), minority groups (Jews), political prisoners (communists)