8C How effectively did the Nazis control Germany 19933-1945

The Nazi seizure of power

Nazi aims

A racially pure Germany. Hitler believed on Aryan supremacy and blamed Jews for Germany's problems. He wanted to remove Jews and non-Aryans from positions of leaderships

A People's Community. The Nazis wanted people to give their hearts and minds to Hitler the Volk people would see their contribution to Germany as more important than their own fulfilment

A strong Germany. Hitler blamed Germany's problems on weak leadership. He wanted strong leadership like the Kaiser he wanted strong people ready for war

Crushing opposition

The SS

Concentration Camps

The Gestapo

The police and the courts

They were believed to have a network of informers who listened to peoples conversations

The Gestapo was the most feared organisations However it was in fact a smaller organisation then people thought but they made germans afraid of each other

Gestapo agents had sweeping powers. They could arrest citizens and send them to concentration camps without trial or explanation

They were a secret state police. Led by Reinhard Heydrich

started 1933

jews, unionists socialists communists churchmen all improsoned

Run by SS death units

hard labour limited food

aimed to correct prisoners but by late 1930s most prisoners were killed in concentration camps

Nazi judges

absorbed the SA very best soldiers