dictatorship and controll

• censorship

  act of controlling or limiting what people can say,write or see by the government
• concentration camp

  place where political prisoners,minorities, and others forced to work or held in terrible conditions.
• enabling act

  allowed hitler to make decisions without needing approval of parliment
• edelweiss pirates

  group of young people in nazi germany who resisted the regime and its rules.
• gestapo

  secret police responsible for spying on and punishing anyone seen as a threat
• Gleichschaltung

  process of making everything in society follow nazi ideas
• jesse owens

  african american athlete who won 4 gold medals at the 1933 berlin olympics challenging nazi ideas
• reichstag fire decree

  reichstag set on fire in 1933 giving power to arrest political opponents and limit freedoms.
• SS

  violent nazi protectors
• SD


  responsible for spying and gathering information
• swing youth

  group of young people who loved jazz and opposed nazis ideas
• volksgemeinschaft

  idea of peoples community
• ernst rohm

  leader of SA killed during kristalnacht (night of long knives)because he was seen as a threat to hitler