Nazi Control

The **

• Short for Schutzstaffel (protection squad)
• Hitler's personal bodyguards
• They coukd arrest people without trial and search their houses.
• They hunted down any Nazi opposition and ruthlessly destroyed it.
• Two divisions:
• The Warre ** were elite soldiers who followed the regular German army into battle
• The Death's Head Unit were responsible for running the concentration camps

The police

• They continued with their usual routines under Nazi controll.
• Nazis controlled them
• Many high ranking policemen were Nazis
• They spent most of their time ignoring crimes done by the Nazis because of this.

Local Wardens

• Twons were divided into blocks & each block had a worden.
• The warden would write reports on the people who lived there.
• They would watch people who did not participate in pro-Nazi celebrations.
• Their reports would go to the Gestapo
• The reports could decide whethe a person got a job or get arrested for being anti-Nazi

The Gestapo

• They were Nazi secret police
• They kept a watch on German citizens
• Used methods: phone tapping, collecting info from informants.
• Anyone seen as anti-Nazi was targeted and could be imprisoned, tortured or sent to a concentration camp without trial

The Courts

• All judges had ro take the pledge of loyalty to Hitler and become Nazi members.
• This made having a fair trial impossible.
• New Nazi laws were enforced.

Concentration Camps

• Prisoners were questionned, tortured or forced to work.
• They were first set up to hold political opponents of the Nazis.
• By the late 1930's, the ** Death's Head Unit forced prisoners to work for Nazi owned businesses.
• The concentration camps now prisoned: Jews, communists, disabled, gypsys ....