Unit 3

• The Gestapo was part of the state police and wore no uniforms, and prosecuted anyone who critised Hitler
• The reichstag fire happened in 1933 and blamed communists
• Van de Lubbe was sentenced and was executed
• 4000 communists were arrested
• Hitler wrote a policy to enable him to arrest communists and people he didn’t support
• Communists newspaper banned
• The secret police would control and hear what people would say
• Joseph Goebbels was the minister of propaganda and was responsible for the Nazi party's media
• Nazi rallies were held every year at Nuremberg
• Goebbels used newspapers, posters, films and radio broadcasting to spread nazi ideas
• In 1927 Hitler had his first rally with 5000 members
• In 1928, Hitler announced that Jews could not be members of the German army or civil service
• In 1935, all Jewish children had to leave school by age 14
• In 1928 there were only 60000 members but by 1932 it had grown to over 5 million members
• In 1936, Jews couldn’t work as doctors, lawyers or teachers
• By 1934 Hitler controlled all aspects of German life including education, religion and culture
• Germany became an authoritarian state with no opposition allowed
• By 1934 there were over 8 million members
• Hitler wanted to make sure that all Germans knew about the Nazis so he set up a special department called the Reich Propaganda Ministry
• Propaganda is information which tries to influence how people think or behave
• Germany joined the League of Nations but they left it in October 1933 because they didn't want to follow its rules
• The people’s receiver was a radio which doesn’t pick up foreign stations
• The press was censored, it all had to be Nazi
• There was mass rallies to increase the public appeal
• The berlin Olympics happen in 1936
• Held in germany and was the biggest stadium in the world
• 33 medals were won