effects

• reichstag fire

  destruction of the communist party

  suspension of civil liberties
• march 1933 election

  nazis win

  enabling act
• enabling act

  end of democracy

  nazi revolution
• night of the long knives

  eliminates opposition - SA and politcal

  ensures loyalty of army/SS
• expansion of the SA

  becomes an elite organisation

  principal instrument of terror
• expansion of the Gestapo

  effective secret police established

  used to persecute the jews and other minorites
• police state in germany

  increased use of apparatus of terror

  fear used to control the german people
• propaganda on germany

  increased use of the radio

  german people were brainwashed
• censorship of germany

  access to the arts were restricted

  access to information was restricted
• education polices

  curriculum change

  types of schools changed
• policies towards young people

  effects on the young group

  indoctrination
• nazi polices on woman

  changes to employment status

  kinder, kirche and kuche encouraged
• nazi policies on churches

  catholic churches - tolerance and the repression

  protestant church - creation of the Reich church
• nazi policies on Jews

  economic effects

  political effects
• nazi policies on minority groups

  mentally ill/undesirables persecuted

  homosexuals persecuted
• economic policies 


  moves to keynesian economics

  autarky attempted
• employment policies

  reduced unemployment

  increase in invisible unemployment
• labour service (RAD)

  helps to reduce unemployment

  used for propaganda
• german labour front

  replaced trade unions

  created strength through joy and beauty of labour