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Life in Nazi Germany
- Nazi control of Germany
- Concentration camps
- First set up in 1933 as makeshift prisons for the Nazi regime
- Run by SS head units
- Prisoners forced to do hard labour and barely fed
- Three main groups were Jews, Socialists and Communists
- First set up in 1933 as makeshift prisons for the Nazi regime
- Gestapo
- Secret state police
- led by Reinard Heydrich
- had power to send citizens to camp without trial
- Germans overestimated its pwer
- Some germans reported
others to Gestapo
- Secret state police
- SS
- Led by Heinrich Himmler
- 2 subdivisions: Death's head and Waffen SS
- Death's heads persecuted and killed Jews
- Waffen SS fought in the regular army
- Death's heads persecuted and killed Jews
- Formed in 1925 and replaced SA
- Highly trained and very loyal
- Led by Heinrich Himmler
- Police and Courts
- The Nazis controlled local police forces.
- The police were given special powers to arrest and detain.
- Nazi agents were immune from the law
- Courts were controlled; Nazi opponents rarely got fair trials
- Nazis often became high ranking police officers
- The Nazis controlled local police forces.
- Concentration camps
- Propaganda
- Aims
- To promote loyalty to Hitler and the Nazis
- To promote traditional family values
- To persuade people that the Communists and Jews were the enemies of germnay
- To persuade young people to join the Hitler Youth
- To promote loyalty to Hitler and the Nazis
- Josef Goebbels=Minister for Enlightenment and Propaganda
- Aims
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