police state

• SS - 1925

  • led by himmler
  • ran concentration camps
• SD - 1931

  • monitered opponents of the nazis
• Gestapo - 1933

  • secret state police
  • bugged phones , opened mail
  • prosecuted people for speaking against the nazis
• Concentration camps

  • first in 1933
  • housed political opponnent such as jews, homosexuals
  • built in isolated areas
  • rumors spread about terrible conditions - dettered people from going against nazis
• law and order

  • police cant interfer
  • all judges had to be nazis
• terror infrastructure to control germans