Terror

Question 1

Who were the SS?

Answer 1

Fanatical Nazis, Hitler’s personal bodyguards.

Question 2

What were the 3 things the general SS could do/did?

Answer 2

1. Arrest people without trial
2. Search houses without warrants.
3. Hunted down any Nazi opposition.

Question 3

What were the 2 subdivisions of the SS?

Answer 3

1. Waffen SS

2. Death’s Head Unit

Question 4

Who were the Waffen SS (individually)?

Answer 4

Elite soldiers

Question 5

What did the Waffen SS do in particular?

Answer 5

Followed regular army in battle

Question 6

What did the Death’s Head Unit do in particular?

Answer 6

Ran concentration camps

Question 7

What stayed the same for the police under Nazi rule, and what changed?

Answer 7

SAME: continued normal routines

CHANGED: controlled by the Nazis

Question 8

What 2 way did the police help the Nazis keep control?

Answer 8

1. Helped informants

2. Ignored crimes committed by Nazis

Question 9

What were the 6 sections of Nazi terror?

Answer 9

1. The SS
2. The Police
3. The Local Wardens
4. The Gestapo
5. Concentration Camps
6. The Courts

Question 10

How did the local wardens help the Nazis keep control?

Answer 10

Divided towns into blocks, each block had a warden who wrote weekly reports on residents.

Question 11

Who did the reports of the local wardens got to?

Answer 11

The Gestapo

Question 12

What 2 things did the reports of the local wardens influence?

Answer 12

Whether someone:

1. Got a job
2. Was arrested for being anti-Nazi

Question 13

Who were the Gestapo?

Answer 13

The Nazi secret police

Question 14

How did the Gestapo collect information? (2)

Answer 14

1. Phone tapping

2. Informants

Question 15

What 3 things did the Gestapo do to anti-Nazis?

Answer 15

1. Targeted and imprisoned,
2. Tortured
   or
3. Sent to a concentration camp.

Question 16

Who were the Gestapo looking to capture?

Answer 16

Anti-Nazis

Question 17

What group of people did concentration camps originally hold?

Answer 17

Political prisoners

Question 18

What 3 things would happen to prisoners of a concentration camp pre-1930s?

Answer 18

1. Questioning
2. Torture
3. Forced labour

Question 19

How long were prisoners usually held in concentration camps pre-1930s?

Answer 19

Only for short periods of time

Question 20

By when did concentrations camps become worse?

Answer 20

By the 1930s

Question 21

What 2 things were prisoners of a concentration camp forced to make post-1930s?

Answer 21

1. Weapons

2. Goods

Question 22

What happened to the range of prisoners held in concentration camps post-1930s?

Answer 22

Became more diverse e.g. jews, homosexuals, disabled people etc. (untermensch)

Question 23

What 2 things did the Nazis force judges to do?

Answer 23

1. Pledge allegiance to Hitler

2. Become members of the Nazi party

Question 24

How did having judges under Hitler’s thumb affect the justice system?

Answer 24

It made a fair trial impossible

Question 25

What else did the Nazis do to the justice system (+ detail)?

Answer 25

Enforced new laws (often punishable by death)