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Flashcards by samstevenson2014, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by samstevenson2014
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| Question | Answer |
| What did the Enabling Act allow? | Press and radio Nazi propaganda |
| What were trade unions replaced by? | Nazi-controlled 'labour front' that fixed wages and working conditions |
| What was the secret police called? | The Gestapo |
| Who were sent to concentration camps? | Thousands of communists, socialists and anti-Nazi Germans |
| Who controlled concentration camps? | Heinrich Himmler and the SS |
| What did Himmler do in 1934? | Take control of the Gestapo |
| Who began to criticise Hitler after he didn't change very much in the economy? | Ernst Röhm |
| What else did he boast? | The SA (two million men) would replace German army |
| Why did this worry Hitler? | He needed army support to stay in power and he feared Ernst Röhm was getting too powerful |
| Who did Hitler make a deal with and to do what? | SS to eliminate Ernst Röhm and the SA |
| When did the Night of the Long Knives occur? | 30 June 1934 |
| Who did Gestapo kill? | Ernst Röhm and 400 leading SA men and other potential threats |
| Who died in August 1934? | President Hindenburg |
| What did Hitler then do? | Combine offices of President and Chancellor into Führer |
| What did all soldiers have to do after that? | Take oath of loyalty to Der Führer |
| What kind of state was Nazi Germany? | Totalitarian state |
| Who spied on everyone? | Gestapo and the SS |
| Who replaced Elected councils? | Nazi officials |
| What was the problem with Nazi officials? | They were too afraid to make decisions or got away with corruption that people couldn't expose |
| What could this have done? | Destroyed Germany |
| Why didn't it? | The Nazi regime didn't last long enough |
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