14) The Terror State (1933-39)

• The SS


  arrested political opponents and ran concentration camps

  had to be "racially pure"
• The SD


  international security service of the Nazi Party and monitored public opinions

  Led by Heydrich
• The Gestapo


  secret police

  relied on informers and Nazi activists and 'block leaders' reporting their neighbours
• How many Gestapo officers were there at its peak


  40,000 for the whole country.
• Volksgemeinschaft


  The people's community. The Nazi slogan expressing the desire to create a classless, unified German society.
• first permanent concentration camp

  set up in Dachau in 1933
• After 1936 who did concentration camps target?

  changed from political opponents to "undesirables"
• Nazi Special Courts


  established in 1933 - dealt with political crimes and had Nazi judges
• People's Court


  established in 1924 - judges have to swear an oath of loyalty to the Nazis.
• The Front of German Law


  April 1933 - careers of those in the legal profession depended on if they aligned with what Nazis wanted
• Workers opposition

  strikes and sabotaged machines and absenteeism
• political opposition

  SPD had small cells and support in factories

  KPD prepared underground organisations and networks in industrial areas

  broken up by the Gestapo, but others took their place
• Radio used as propaganda


  9 million sold cheaply

  could only be tuned to Nazi stations

  by 1929, 70% of households had a radio
• Triumph of the Will


  This Nazi propaganda documentary created in 1936 of the 1934 Nuremberg Nazi party rally
• How many denouncers to the Gestapo were men?

  80%
• How many accusations to the Gestapo were about personal conflict?

  37%