control in Nazi Germany :

propeganda

church

police state

rallies

radios

cinema

ss

concentration camps

Gestapo

protestant anti- nazi

pretestant (pro-nazi)

catholic

Remember

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  • they wore no uniform
  • secret police
  • tapped phone calls and emails
  • they could arrest, imprison and torture anyone

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  • arrest without trial
  • informers would tell on the people who critisized the Nazi's
  • children were encouraged to report their teachers and parents

Remember

  • wore black uniform
  • 1st SD who looked after security, could arrest anyone at any moment and could also seized property
  • Hitler's body guards, split into 3 sections
  • 2nd Waffen SS- elite unit of the army

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  • the deaths head unit who ran the concemtration camps and later the death camps

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forgot

  • inmates were forced to work hard and some were even tortured or worked to death
  • set up as soon as Hitler took power in 1933
  • large prisons where prisoners of war were held for any length of time
  • anyone the Nazi's didn't like were sent there such as Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals
  • political opponents were also sent to these camps
  • all radio stations were under nazi control to broadcast nazi ideas
  • cheap radios were produced that could only- tune into nazi- run stations
  • loud speakers were placed in the streets, factories and cafes to broadcast these ideas
  • by 1939 70% homes had cheap radios, they were short waved so they couldn't pick up foreign countries radios
  • Joseph Goebbels approved every storyline, 100 films a year were mass produced and in 1933, 250 million people went to the cinema
  • all films included a 45 minute newsreal of the nazis before it started
  • films subtle put in nazi messages to glorify hitler and the nazi messages
  • all films showed the nazis as heroes and enemies as bad guys
  • mass rallies were held to celebrate hitler's greatness
  • huge arenas were built where they carefully choreographed shows with choirs, bands, speeches, fireworks and air displays
  • they were designed to show how organised the Nazi's were
  • posters appeared all over Germany showing Hitler's power and the good things the nazi's were doing

  • at the At the 1934 Nuremburg rally, the stadium had thousands of banners, 20,000 Nazi flags, and a 100 foot Nazi gold eagle. Over 200,000 Nazi supporters crowded in to hear Hitler’s speech
  • Pastor Martin Niemoller formed the confessional church to openly criticize the Nazis
  • the Nazi's arreseted around 800 pastors of the confessional church
  • Niemoller was sent to a concentration camp and the confessional church was banned
  • Marriage, the family and morals were at the forefront of many Christian’s lives and the Nazi’s stated that they valued these things as well.
  • Hitler had promised to respect the Church and destroy communism, communism was anti- religious

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