Weimar and Nazi Germany Topic Summaries

Fear and repression in the police state

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  • People who criticised the Nazis could be arrested without trial.
  • Fear of punishment discouraged open opposition.
  • Run by the SS, concentration camps imprisoned and forced opponents of the Nazi state into brutal labor, often working prisoners to death or killing them via starvation, disease, or execution.
  • The Gestapo were the secret police who monitored loyalty, arresting and torturing those suspected of disloyalty, often in secret night raids.
  • Within the legal system, judges had to be Nazi Party members who enforced Nazi ideology in courts • Neighbourhood blocks had Nazi informers, and Hitler Youth children were encouraged to spy on family and neighbours, creating a climate of fear that discouraged resistance and divided communities

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