Topic 6 Terror And Persuasion

Question 1

Which 3 organisations made up the Nazi police state?

Answer 1

• SS
• Gestapo
• SD

Question 2

Who was leader of the SS?

Answer 2

Heinrich Himmler

Question 3

How many members did the SS have by 1934?

Answer 3

50,000

Question 4

Which was the most important organisation in the nazi police state that oversaw the others?

Answer 4

SS

Question 5

What was the Gestapo?

Answer 5

Nazis secret police force

Question 6

What were members of the SS expected to be?

Answer 6

Racially pure Aryans

Question 7

What were the SS responsible for?

Answer 7

• Removal of all opposition to the nazis in Germany
• running concentration camps where ‘enemies of state’ were sent

Question 8

What was the SS originally set up as?

Answer 8

Hitlers personal bodyguard service

Question 9

When were the SS originally formed?

Answer 9

1925

Question 10

What were the Gestapo responsible for?

Answer 10

• monitor German population for signs of opposition/resistance to Nazi rule

Question 11

What were the Gestapo able to do to suspected ‘enemies of state’?

Answer 11

Arrest and imprison them without trial

Question 12

How many people by 1939 were under arrest for political crimes?

Answer 12

160,000

Question 13

What were the SD?

Answer 13

An intelligence gathering service for the SS

Question 14

Who was the leader of the SD and Gestapo?

Answer 14

Reinhard Heydrich (Himmler’s right hand man)

Question 15

Who would the SD report their findings to?

Answer 15

SS and Gestapo

Question 16

Who did the SD attract?

Answer 16

Professors/highly educated people

Question 17

How were prisoners in concentration camps treated?

Answer 17

• underfed
• treated with brutality
• high mortality rates

Question 18

When were the first concentration camps set up?

Answer 18

After Enabling Act was passed

Question 19

What did all judges and lawyers have to join, forcing them to accept nazi policy?

Answer 19

National Socialist League for the Maintenance of Law and Order