What forms of terror did the n***s use to make sure that there was little opposition?

Question

I'm doing my GCSE coursework and i need to know this infomation to add to part of it, it would be really helpful if anyone could help me!

thanks.

Answer 1

They pretty much killed the opposition. They banned opposition parties, killed many of their leaders,

Answer 2

The creation of the SS terrorized the civilian population in to obedience.  They were the law, they could walk into anyone's home and take them away.  Hitler even turned them on his own people who he felt were suspect in loyality.

Answer 3

They used beatings, torture, Blackmail, etc to suppress the population of a country, they tried to take away all hope from the people. They would often fire heads of towns and cities like the mayor or counselors and replaced them with their own puppets. They would offer money for information and encourage neighbor to turn against neighbor and people to turn even their friends in. They also used the dreaded SS and Gestapo to carry out all the terror.

Answer 4

Beating up people with big sticks. (The SS)

Killing people (night of the long knives)

Breakign theri stuff (Kristallnacht)

Removing them from public life (concentration camps)

Answer 5

The SS were used in order to spy on the normal person (they had one SS officer on every street called a Blockleiter I think)

The Gestapo (branch of SS) tapped phones.

Certain minority groups were segregated /destroyed

Massive rallies in Nuremberg made the people become brain washed

Laws passed by Hitler removed Jewish rights and could allow biased juries etc.

Violence was especially used (Kristallnacht + Night of Long Knives)

Answer 6

1- The Reichstag Fire Decree.

2- The1934 act to rebuild the Reich.

3- The SA.

4- The SS.

5- Silencing critics and dissenters and political opponents.

6- Requiring citizens to carry identification papers.

7- Elimination of persons based upon racism or any suspected physical or mental defects.

8- Discrimination in the workforce.

9- Mandatory sterillization of selected citizens.

10- Media propagana.

11- Use of concentration camps.

In WW1, Germany lost much land. The German cause in WW2 was to regain that land. Germany had built up a strong military force by the early 40s and when it launched campaigns to regain this lost land, there was little opposition from most countries in the region. It was only after the campaigns were so successful that Germany decided to aquire lands that did not originally belong to them. It did not take long for Japan and Italy to join in with the grab for land themselves. Terroristic threats were not needed for most of the WW2 land aquisition campaigns. Russia tried to join the Tripartite Pact but found itself in conflict with the lands Germany wanted to aquire. Russia and Germany agreed to divide Poland. It was only after Germany made incursions into Russia that Russia entered the war against Germany.

Following WW1, German attempts to establish a democracy during the Weimar Republic failed. The German government was in shambles. It suffered hyperinflation. In 1923, Hiltler attempted to establish a revolt with 3,000 supporters but it failed and Hitler spent 9 months in prison. Following this, Hitler's rise to power was aquired through legal measures. The rise of the n**i party was a legal one that began in 1933. This was accomplished - not through terror tactics - but by the continuous failures by other leaders in Germany since the end of WW1 to establish a successful form of government.

The German government passed the Reichstag Fire Decree (this decree took away most of the civil liberties of the German citizens, was used as the legal basis of imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of the n***s, and was used to suppress publications not considered "friendly" to the n**i cause) and the1934 act to rebuild the Reich (it disbanded state parliaments, transferred sovereign rights of the states to the Reich central government and put the state administrations under the control of the Reich administration). Hitler was installed as dictator. As such, he revamped the military by incorporating SS officers into the army units. Control of German society was attained by the institution of the Gestapo, police with the power to act outside of any civil authority.

Worker unions were disolved by the SA and union leaders were imprisoned. Later, SA members were also killed to prevent them from forming a dissent group.

An estimated army of about 100,000 spies and infiltrants operated throughout Germany, reporting to n**i officials the activities of any critics or dissenters.

Many thousands of political opponents were put in prison camps where they were severely mistreated, and many tortured and killed.

Germany first secured it's own border by forcing persons to carry identity papers which needed to be shown upon request to any military or police officer. Germany sought out to eliminate those who were not of pure German descent. Main targets were minority groups such as Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

Jobs were taken away from Jews and replaced with unemployed Germanics.

Programs such as the T-4 Euthanasia Program were imposed to eliminate (kill) the weak and disabled.

A law passed in 1933 allowed for the compulsory sterilization of over 400,000 citizens deemed to have hereditary defects.

Jews were required to wear a yellow star on their sleeves in public.

Propaganda was used to justify attacks against Russia to defend Germany from Bolshevism.

Answer 7

arrest and detention without charge so that people didn't know what crime they had committed

torture and murder backed up by a system of informers

Answer 8

The Gestapo, which no one knew who was in it, so people were afraid to talk to anyone about Hitler. The SS, death camps and the Waffen SS were also used to scare people into submission.

The Hitler youth controlled young boys and gave them military training so they could go straight into the army. They were brainwashed from a young age to believe Hitler's ideas. They were also encouraged to spy on their parents and tell someone if they were anti-n**i. The Hitler youth also wore smart uniforms, as did the SS, showing the power, discipline and organisation of the n***s

As well as using terror, Hitler made changes to Germany which many people thought beneficial. The Hitler youth and league of German maidens were taught traditional things e.g. girls taught how to cook, clean and bring up children, boys taught how to fight, do manual work. This impressed many German traditionalists, so they didn't want to oppose him.

Answer 9

They used violence and 'bully-boy' tactics on the street, as well as persecuting the weak and vulnerable and those who made easy targets for the population who were looking for a scapegoat to blame for their own troubles arising from losing WWI and the Great Depression. They used the political process to gain power and the law to keep it - using it to imprison their political opponents. They then grabbed territory to increase the morale of their people so no-one would question where the opposition was. hope that helps