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Theme 2: Controlling The People Flashcards

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Weimar control of people- Ebert in 1918-19

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  • left-wing revolution is a threat
  • Ebert Groener Pact
  • wanted working class to move towards republic- made max 8 hr day/ trade unions recognised
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What was the Ebert Groener Pact?

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Committed army to defend new regime against left

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Weimar control of people- Ebert in 1920?

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  • Kapp Putsch showed difficulty regime had of imposing order
  • Ebert unable to rely on army as senior generals used the reduction in army to remove officers who supported Republic
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Weimar control of people- Ebert in controlling extremist parties?

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  • July 1921- Reichstag passes Law for the Protection of the Republic
  • Designed to last 5 years
  • increased sentences for politically motivated violence
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Weimar control of people- Stresseman in 1924-29?

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  • needed economic turmoil of 1923
  • policy if ‘fulfilment’ led to French and Belgium occupation of the Rhur
  • ended hyper inflation
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What two plans did Stresseman make?

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  • Dawes Plan- ensured economic recovery
  • Young Plan- allies agreed to a compete withdrawal of Rhineland
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Did Stresseman fully defeat extremism?

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  • no as 5.8 million Germans Appleseed Young Plan
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Weimar control of people- Hindenburg and Article 48

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  • issued 5 emergency decrees in 1930
  • used it to bypass democracy
  • used it to attack aspects of Weimar constitution
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Weimar control of people- Hindenburg and controlling extremism

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  • Bruning worked with Hindenburg- used article 48 to ban political uniforms
  • SA couldn’t wear brown uniform now
  • April 1932- Bruning persuaded Hindenburg to ban SA and SS
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Nazi control: how was the radio controlled?

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  • Goebbels told radio broadcasters they had to support Nazi ideology
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Nazi control: why was it difficult to control the press?

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  • Germany had a lot of newspapers- National, regional, individual
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Nazi control: Law of 4th October 1933

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Editor of newspaper now personally responsible for what they published and can be punished for it

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Nazi control: What did the State Owned Press Agency do?

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Newspapers were expected to pick up their stories from the agency

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Nazi control: what was the purpose of the first concentration camps?

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To hold political prisoners

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Nazi control: what was the Gestapo?

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  • secret police
  • weed out enemies of the state
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Nazi control: what was role of SS?

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  • Hitler’s bodyguards
  • ran concentration camps
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Nazi control: how was the people’s court unfair?

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Members of court selected from SS

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Nazi control: how were Gauleiters and Bloc Wardens used?

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  • used to repress people
  • watch for infringements of Nazi regime
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Nazi control: what events were not reported in newspapers?

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Pics of Nazi leaders drinking alcohol and certain people who had not been arrested

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Nazi control: why did people loose interest in the press in 1934?

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  • aware they didn’t have much in common with reality
  • more people became interested in rumours
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Nazi control: what’s as the ‘special war penal code’?

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  • authorities could execute anybody they believed to be guilty of obstructing the war effort
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FRG control: what was the FRG? And how was its power split?

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  • federal republic
  • power divided between central and regional govt
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FRG control: what was set up so ensure the govt acted legally and gave out equal rights?

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  • Bundesrat
  • represented the Lander in parliament
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FRG control: what was set up to endure govt acted legally and gave equal rights?

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  • Bundesrat
  • represented lander
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FRG control: what was the govt?

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  • more ‘reprehensive’ than a democracy
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FRG control: why was the govt more ‘reprehensive’?

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  • done to control the populace as the allies felt that the German people could not be trusted to maintain democracy
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FRG control: what was the voting system like for Bundestag?

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  • combination of proportional representation and First Past the Post (first party with most votes win)
  • to ensure election was democratic
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FRG control: what groups were set up to investigate people working against Basic Law?

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  • BFV in 1950
  • BND in 1956
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FRG control: who did the BND report to?

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Chancellor

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FRG control: what BND try to pass laws for and when?

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  • 1960, 1962, 1065
  • open mail, search homes, monitor phone calls
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FRG control: what emergency law was passed and when?

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  • 1968
  • to be able to go through mail, search houses
  • as protests by students and unions became violent

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