How effectively did the Nazis deal with their political opponents?

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• GAVE HIS AGENTS SWEEPING POWERS

1. Know this due to modern research
2. As a result many ordinary Germans informed on each other
   1. As they thought the Gestapowould find out anyway

1. Top of jobs in local police forces were given to high ranking Nazis
   1. Reporting directly to Himmler
2. Under strict instructions to ignore crimes committed by Nazi agents

1. Nazis controlled magistrates, judges and the courts
   1. Therefore opponents of Nazism rarely received a fair trial

1. Very important in the huge organisation
2. 400,000
   1. One in every street and in every block of flats in every town and city
3. Salute on their neighbours
   1. Reported suspicious behaviour to party bosses
      1. In this manner political opponents and criminals could be identified and turned over to the police with ease

1. First camps in 1933
   1. Simply make shift presence in disused factories and warehouses
   2. First Dachau
2. Although soon purpose built
3. 25,000 people taken in the two month purge after the Reichstag fire

1. Prisoners are forced to do hard labour
2. Food very limited
3. Prisoners suffered harsh discipline
4. Beatings
5. Random execution

1. Jews
2. Socialists
3. Communist
4. Trade unionist
   1. Band by law on 10 May 1933
5. Churchman
6. Anyone else brave enough to criticise the Nazis

1. by fanatics loual to Hitler

1. primary responsibility for destroying opposition to Nazism
2. carrying out racial policies of the Nazis

1. very highly trained
2. totally loyal to Hitler.

1. Responsible for concentratin campls and the slaughter of the Jews.

1. special armoured regiments, fought alongside regular army

1. More control easier it was to put aims into affect
   1. These are the methods of controlling the people