Terror And Persuasion

• The SS were formed in 1925 to act a unit for Hitler
• The SS leader was Heinrich Himmler
• There were over 50,000 members of the SS
• The SS were expected to be examples of the Aryan race and marry racially pure wives
• The Gestapo was set up in 1933 and was the secret state police
• The head of the Gestapo was Reinhard Heydrich
• If the Gestapo thought you were a political opponent they would arrest you
• In 1934, a new peoples court was established to deal with treason
• in 1933 the German lawyers front was established and had more than 10,000 members by the end of the year
• Judges had to become members of the national socialist league for the maintenance of the law. This meant Nazi Ideologies were upheld in the court.
• Hitler himself would adjust sentences if he felt the sentence was to lenient
• Concentration camps first opened in April 1933
• Opponents of the regime would be taken to concentration camps for questioning, torture and hard labour
• All film plots were shown to Goebbels before production
• non-Nazi newspapers and magazines were shut down
• An annual rally was held at Nuremburg to advertise the power of Nazis
• radios were placed in cafes and factories and under Nazi control