The policing state- Nazi Germany

• When was the SS set up?

  1925
• What colour were the SS uniforms?

  Black
• Who was the SS run by?

  Heinrich Himmler
• who did Hitler use the SS to murder in the ‘night of long knifes’?

  The SA leaders
• What year was the SS expanded to 240,000 men?

  1930
• In 1930 the SS was expanded to how many men?

  240,000
• What group of the police state were were put in charge of all the other police and security?

  The SS
• What was Himmler very particular about recruitment to the SS (and why)?

  He wanted examples of perfect German manhood; they were expected to marry ‘racially pure’ wives. To create ‘racially pure’ Germans for the future.
• What happens to any SS member if they are found out to be homosexual?

  They are publicly degraded, expelled, and handed over to the courts. Then they will be sent to a concentration camp, and shot.
• Why does Heinrich Himmler not want anyone in the SS to be homosexual?

  To keep Germany blood pure
• The SD was formed by Heinrich Himmler but who did they make leader?

  Reinhard Heydrich
• When did Heinrich Himmler form the SD?

  1931
• Why was the SD formed?

  For a security force for the Nazi party to monitor its opponents
• What did the SD do?

  The SD kept a card index with details of everyone it suspected of opposing the Nazi party or the Germany government home or abroad
• Where was the SD based?

  at brown house, the headquarters of the Nazi party in Munich
• When was the Gestapo set up?

  1933
• Who set up the Gestapo?

  Hermann Goering
• Who was the Gestapo placed under control of?

  The SS
• Who became the Gestapo leader in 1936?

  Reinhard Hydrich
• When did Reinhard Hydrich became leader of the Gestapo?

  1936
• What was the main aim of the Gestapo?

  to identify anyone who criticised or opposed Nazi government
• In 1939 how many people were arrested for political offences by the Gestapo?

  160,000
• What year were 160,000 people arrested by the Gestapo?

  1939
• The Gestapo were given permission to what when questioning suspects or gaining confessions?

  torture
• What was the main weapon of the Gestapo?

  Fear
• Why did the Germans particularly fear the Gestapo?

  because they could not tell them apart from other members of the public
• The Gestapo often arrived early in the morning to do what?

  Take suspects away
• The Gestapo could Imprison people without trail and then tell their family’s what?

  That their relative had died in custody
• Where were many people, who were caught by the Gestapo, get sent to?

  concentration camps
• Only 10% of political crime was actually found from the Gestapo. Another 10% was passed on to the Gestapo from regular police or the Nazi party. 80% was passed in from?

  ordinary people
• What did the Gestapo do?

  Spied on people, tapped their phones and used networks of informants to identify suspects