Terror State

Question 1

What was the Role of the SS?

Answer 1

• Suppression and control of Political opposition
• More systematic than the SA
• Police

Question 2

What was the Role of the SD? Who led it?

Answer 2

• Reinhard Heydrich
• Intelligence gathering, monitor public opinion
• Had 50,000 members by 1939

Question 3

What was the role of the Gestapo?

Answer 3

• Had reputation of being all knowing
• only 20,000 members by 1939
• Worked on fear and voluntary Informers

Question 4

How did the Nazis control the justice system?

Answer 4

• Creation of ‘The Front of German Law’ in 1939, making lawyers join League of National socialist lawyers
• Special courts (1933) and People’s court (1934) 3 Nazis Judges to two normal, political crimes, defendants had no right appeal

Question 5

What is Gleichschaltung?

Answer 5

Nazi’s idea of controlling all aspects of German Society

Question 6

How many strikes were recorded in 1937?

Answer 6

250

Question 7

What ways (other than strikes) did the workers oppose Nazi regime?

Answer 7

• Absenteeism
• 1938 new labour laws introduced, 114 arrested at munitions factory in Gleiwitz

Question 8

How did the Protestant church resist Nazis ?

Answer 8

• ‘Confessional Church’ break off, refused Nazi ideology
• 1934 Two confessional bishops arrested, mass demonstrations
• By the end of 1937, 700 bishops arrested

Question 9

What was some Catholic opposition to the Nazis?

Answer 9

• 1937 Papal Encyclical, condemned Nazi hatred of the Church

Question 10

How did Nazis use Newspapers for propaganda?

Answer 10

• By the end of 1933 Nazis had 27 daily newspapers with 2.4 million in circulation a day
• News agencies all merged into state controlled