The Police State

Question 1

repression

Answer 1

preventing someone from doing something through force and fear

Question 2

Heinrich Himmler

Answer 2

led SS from 1929 until h was in command of all security services

fervent supporter of N racial policy

oragnisation he ran didn’t have to comply with law if for greater good of germany

after 1939 i charge of ocuupied eastern countries and had control of racial policy

Question 3

legal system

Answer 3

all judges had to belong to national socialist league and had to favour nazi party in their verdicts

all verdicts were decided by a judge

cases of teason tried in secret by specially selected judges

Question 4

role of SS

Answer 4

were to be highly obediant, discipline carry out orders they recieved

unlimited power to arrest imprison and search property

pure aryans marry a wives breed a children

after 1936 controlled whole police system and ran concentrtion camps

1940-waffen SS developed

WW2-but in charge of death and Einsatzgruppen camps

Question 5

role of Gestapo

Answer 5

many were prof police officers

no uniforms hard to identify

aim was to identify opponents

spied on ppl using general population n party informants

tortured ppl during questioning and sent ppl to concenc

small force of 50,000 but ppl were terrified

in 1936 led by heydrich under himmler n the SS