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key organisations of Nazi Germany
NSDAP
Origin: 20 founded by Anton Drexler in February 1920, Munich, Germany
purpose: to kill Jews, gays and make Germany a better place.
wanted the Aryan race thrive and become the master race.
core activities
Promotion of Nationalism-
anti-semitism views
Totalitarian Control
Lebensraum
Aryan master race
important personnel
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Joseph Goebbels
Hermann Göring
Rudolf Hess
Albert Speer
key events
November 8–9, 1923
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party lead a group to attempt to overthrow the government of Bavaria This so-called Beer Hall Putsch fails. Hitler and others are arrested for treason.
January 1933
The Nazi Party comes to power with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor.
March 23, 1933
Following the burning of the Reichstag, by unknown arsonists, the
German parliament passes the Law for Rectification of the Distress of Nation and Reich, commonly known as the Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz). This law allows Hitler, as Chancellor, to initiate and sign legislation into law without obtaining parliamentary consent. The act effectively establishes a dictatorship, under Hitler, in Germany.
On Hitler’s order, Nazi leaders eliminate the leadership of the SA and kill other political enemies. The murderous purge cements an agreement between the Nazi regime and the German army that consolidates Nazi power and enables Hitler to proclaim himself Führer (leader) of Germany and to claim absolute power.
Schutzstaffel (SS)
Origins: The Schutzstaffel was founded in 1925 by Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard unit. Later, it became both the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler's executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties, without regard for legal restraint
Purpose: The SS were originally Hitler's personal bodyguards, but once expanded by Himmler, they became a symbol of terror. The Nazi party used this to terrify their opposition into subordination, slowly eliminate them entirely, or scare people into supporting them
Core Activities
Security
Identification of ethnicity
Settlement and population policy
Intelligence collection and analysis
Important Personnel:
Heinrich Himmler
Maximilian von Herff
Rudolf Hess
Reinhard Heydrich
Key Events / Achievements:
1925: the Schutzstaffel was formed
January 1929: Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler as the leader of the SS
Summer 1934: Hitler authorizes Himmler to centralize the concentration camp system under SS leadership
Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)
key events/ acheivements- freedom of speech; freedom of the press; and equality before the law.
important personnel- heinrich himmier, reinhard heydritc, wllhelm muller, gestapo region cheifs
purpose- Gestapo policemen used torture and violence in interrogations. They coordinated the deportation of Jews to their deaths. And they harshly repressed resistance movements in Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
origin -The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one organisation.
key events- Using intimidation, coercion, and torture, the Gestapo sought to eliminate anyone perceived as an enemy of the state.
Sturmabteilung (SA)
Key Events
Core Activities- During the early days of the Nazi regime, the SA carried out unchecked street violence against Jews and Nazi opponents.
Origins- The term Sturmabteilung predates the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919. Originally it was applied to the specialized assault troops of Imperial Germany in World War I who used infiltration tactics based on being organized into small squads of a few soldiers each.
Purpose - providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties
Important Personnel- Ernst Röhm (1931–1934) Viktor Lutze (1934–1943) Max Jüttner (acting, May–August 1943) Wilhelm Schepmann (1943–1945)
Nazi youth
purpose: its main job was to teach the kids about the ideas that their leader believed in but they did thi in a fun way so that the ids would keep coming back.
key events
1933: After the Nazi Party's rise to power, the Hitler Youth becomes an official state youth organization through the "Law Regarding the Hitler Youth" on December 1, 1936.
1945: As World War II comes to an end, the Hitler Youth is officially disbanded by the Allied occupation authorities, along with the collapse of the Nazi regime.
origin: founded by hitler on March 4, 1922
important personel
Baldur von Schirach
Artur Axmann
Heinrich Himmler
Balduin von Schirach
Aldof Hitler
core activities
Leadership Training
Ceremonies and Rallies
Preparation for Future Roles
Paramilitary Training
Community Service
Propaganda Dissemination
Wehrmacht
Purpose: The Wehrmacht were the German Military, and perpetrated crimes against civilians and prisoners of war and facilitated the genocide of Europe's Jews.
Key Events:
Summer - Fall 1941: Wehrmacht Participation in the Holocaust. The army cooperated with the SS to eliminate Jewish threat
Important Personnel: Hitler
