Living in the Terror State

• What did the Nazis want?

  Control over people's lives
• How did Nazi Germany control people's lives?

  Through the Enabling Act of 1933
• What did the Enabling Act allow Nazis to do?

  • Read people's mails
  • Listen to live phone calls
  • Search homes without notice
• When was the Law of Reconstruction of the Reich?

  1934
• What did the Law of Reconstruction of the Reich do?

  Gave Nazis power over local governments, this was used to sack civil servants who didn't agree with the nazis
• What happened the justice system in 1933?


  New courts set up that suspended basic rights of the accused, judges now had to be biased to nazi policies and nothing else
• When was the people's court of berlin established?

  1934
• What did the people's court of berlin do?

  Held trials for political crimes, allowing the Nazis to prosecute any political opposition
• Who was Heinrich Himmler?


  Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS and one of the key architects of the Holocaust
• Who were the SS?

  • Hitler's bodyguards
  • Used to get rid of SA in the Night of Long Knives 28th-29th June 1934
• Who were the Gestapo?

  The secret police force of Nazi Germany
• What were the methods of the Gestapo?

  • Severe interrogation
  • Imprisonment without trial
• What did the local wardens do?

  • Ensured there was the no disloyalty to Hitler and the Nazi regime
  • Encouraged the public to speak up about any disloyalty seen
• When were concentration camps introduced?

  1933
• What was the SD?

  The Main Intelligence agency that gathered information how well propaganda was working, and spied on the public to find anyone disloyal to the Nazi regime