Nazi Violence
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- Created on: 22-02-15 17:21
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- Nazi Violence
- Terror
- Ebbed and flowed - political circumstances
- Calm and control - violence on a leash
- Bursts of extreme violence
- Daily basis - atmosphere of terror
- Dependent on public cooperation -spies
- The **
- Founded 1925
- Security service under Heydrich - Aug 1931
- July 1934 - ** control of concentration camps
- June 1936 - merge iwth police
- Methodical organisation - disciplined, fit and well educated
- Himmler leader 1929
- Night of Long Knives - purge of SA 1934 June
- Concentration Camps
- Dauchau first in March 1933
- Political prisoners - socialists, communists
- 'Asocials' and 'social deviants'
- Not Jews until after Kristallnacht
- ** took over after Night of Long Knives
- Eiche - command
- Germans aware of them - but not a lot of insight
- Jewish Boycott 1933
- To satisfy rank and file violent activists and not anger Conservative
- Retaliation against Jewish interests - Jewish boycott of German goods abroad
- Big public impact
- Kristallnacht 1938
- Reactions to killing of Von Rath by a young Polish Jew
- Hierarchy concerned about public violence running out of control
- Those involved mainly non-uniformed SA and **
- Majority of public horrified
- Goebbels - organised it and fanned the flames through the press
- Thousands injured and arrested, synagogues burnt, looting - Jews fined 1mil marks
- Reactions to killing of Von Rath by a young Polish Jew
- Terror
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