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Police state 1933-39

The SS
1. The kripo- responsible for carrying out policing duties
  1. Police
2. The Gestapo [40000 members]- hunted down Nazi opponents
  1. Intelligence
3. The SD- Monitored the security of the Reich
  1. Security
4. Trained in junker schools where they were taught absolute loyalty to Hitler and told they were the master race
  1. 250000 members by 1939
  2. State within a state
  3. Ran by Heinrich Himmler
The Law Courts
1. By 1939 the judicial system sentenced nearly 1/4 of a million germans to more than 60000 years in prison
2. Came under state control
3. 1934- Hitler made a 'peoples court' which would give the 'right' verdict
  1. Nazi judges, no juries and those accused could not defend themselves
Concentration camps
1. Contained political prisoners, jews, communists, gypsies, homosexuals, alcoholics and prostitutes
2. The Decree for the Protection of People and the State allowed political prisoners to be sent to 'protective custody' i.e. concentration camps
3. By 1934 it was ran by the Death's Head Unit
`Impact of the police state
1. People's community (volksgemeinschaft) taught people loyalty to the state and the fuhrer
2. Offenses like anti-Nazi graffiti or saying business was bad would be reported to the gestapo
3. Clan responsibility meant if one person broke the law the whole family would be punished
4. Many people did not trust their neighbours
How effective?
1. Limited opposition until the outbreak of WW2
2. Very popular in rural protestant areas and the youth
3. Popular with the lower working class
4. Less support from urban working classes and the unemployed
5. "Speak through a flower"

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