prelim

• characteristics of the Wiemar government

  • everyone over the age of 20 could vote in elections and had a say in the countries politics
  • they had the right to freedom of speech
  • right to freedom of press
  • they could chosie what religion they wanted to follow
  • no one could be arested unless they were breaking the law
  • Everyone had the right to a fair trial.
• event of the Munich putsch

  • Hitler wanted to use the anger from the German public to over throw the goverment
  • on the 8 th of novermber Hitler + SA intrubted a political meeting which van kar was at
  • This was in a beer hall hitler stoped the meeting and took kar to another room at held a gun to his head and demanded he joined the nazis
  • Von kar aggred and said he would join them for the march the next day when the nazis left he notified the police and army
• the events of the night of long knifes

  • 30 June 1934
  • Hitler was worried that the SA would try to overthrow him so
  • he arranged a meeting with Rohm and 100 other SA leadders to a hotel
  • the leaders were arested by the SS and then shot
  • over the next cupple of days any threats made to hitler were killed by the SS
  • As a result the SS became hitlers and too comands from him
  • in august the army swore alegiance to hitler
• • The events of the Reichstag fire 


  • 6 days before election Parliament was set of fire happened on the 27 th of February 1933
  • was done by a young duch man who supported the communist party
  • he was blamed to have stared the fire as well as the communist party
  • president declared a state of emergency across Germany
  • Hitler and the SS used this to suppress the communist party as the public backed them
  • the SA + SS beat up ,arrested or murdered 4000 communists driven by hitler communists are no longer a political threat
• • what are the characteristics of the nazi party - police state 

  • all political rights and freedoms were removed
  • all aspects of life were supervised and their was censorship
  • they would burn books in public
  • if you did not follow the idealist you were at risk of being arrested
• What are the characteristics of the nazi - local government 



  • Hitler thought that state government could be a source of Opposition so he took away their power
  • the gov in Berlin were appointed nazi commissioners they carried out Hitlers orders
  • in 1933 the nazi officials were appointed to the civil service
• what are the charistics of the nazi party - police +law power 



  • Nazi police officers were oppointed
  • Goering made 40,000 SA+SS men auxiliary police
  • in 1934 peoples court were set up to try cases for treason in secret
  • in 1935 people could be tried for hostile acts even though they had not broke the law
  • Many people arrested and tried for treason
• Methods which insured a terror state or induced fear 


  • The SS had unlimited power to hold people without trial and confiscate their property.  They also ran the concentration camps
  • The gestapo used any method like tapping phones to see who was against hitler
  • all the judges in courts were controled by the nazi party
  • the police were given unlimited power which made peoel scarred of them
  • The Gestapo also became feared because of they used torture to gain confessions when ‘questioning’ suspects.
  • people in concentration camps were made to do hard labour and were often tortured
• economic policies - German labour front 


  • if you joined you got an extra day of holidays and couldn't be sacked by your employer
  • But workers couldn't complain about the working conditions or ask for higher salaries
  • they couldn't leave the job with out asking the gov
  • all workers had a work book where it recorded the workers behaviour,time keeping and absence rate
• economic policies - German labour service 


  • All men aged 19-23 had to work for the government for 6 months woman were later introduced to this and were given jobs in teaching or domestic services
  • The wages were low but workers got military style uniform made them feel the government was trying to help them
• economic policies - strength through joy 


  • set up to control the leisure time of German people
  • it allowed them to go on holidays,organised events and more
  • they only got this if they worked hard so encouraged them too
  • Hitler offered German an affordable family car if they payed 5 marks per week which was a luxury but none resived a car