A police state is when a government uses the police to control everyone’s lives. The Nazis used the SS, SD and the Gestapo to do this.
The SS
A) Himmler
B) black
C) police
D) security
E) racially pure
F) concentration camps
The SD
A) Himmler
B) 1931
C) Heydrich
D) spied
E) abroad
Hitler controlled the legal system so that meant it was very difficult for anyone to oppose him. He did this by controlling the judges.
All judges had to favor the Nazi Party in any situation. He also abolished trial by jury
Hitler set up a Peoples court, where for all cases of treason, Judges were hand picked and trials were in secret
The first camp was built at Dachau in 1933 to house the growing number of people being arrested
Many concentration camps were built in isolated areas so that nobody knew what was going on
Prisoners of concentration camps often were political opponents, homosexuals, and minority groups such as Jews
Prisoners of concentration camps were treated poorly and forced to do hard labor
The Gestapo
A) Goering
B) 1933
C) Heydrich
D) plain
E) spied
F) nazis
G) torture
The Nuremburg rallies begun in 1923 by the Nazis and continued even when they came into power. The rallies used symbols such as the Swastika and promoted nationalist views
