police state

• what was the Nazi police state?


  A police state is one in which the police have absolute power to arrest and punish anyone.

  SS had absolute power and could arrest, imprison and execute people without trial.
• when did Germany become a police state?

  After 1933
• why was the police state created?

  to control population

  ensure populations compliance
• what was the structure of the police state?

  -SS

  -Gestapo

  -Regular police and courts

  -concentration camps

  -Legal system
• what was the SS


  -originally Hitlers bodyguards

  -power expanded as dictatorship set in

  -key part of police state
• what were the ss nicknamed and why?


  -black shirts

  -because of black uniforms
• When were the SS set up?

  1925