A. Test your understanding of this chapter by explaining each of the following terms.
-Chancellor: prime minister
-Reichstag: the parliament
-Enabling Law: this let Hitler make laws without asking the Reichstag for its consent.
-one party state: the Nazi party was the only party allowed to exist in Germany.
-Gauleiters: district leaders
-block leaders: They were each in charge of one block of flats or group of houses.
B. Explain how Hitler increased his power on each of the following dates:
-April 7, 1933: Hitler put Nazi officials in charge of the local governments which ran Germany's provinces.
-May 2, 1933: Hitler closed down trade unions, took away their funds and put their leaders in prison.
-July 14, 1933: Hitler made a law against the formation of new Nazi parties. This said that the Nazi party was the only party allowed to exist in Germany.
-June 30, 1934: Roehm and the other SA leaders were arrested on Hitler's orders, taken to prison, and shot.
-August 2, 1934: President Hindenburg died, and Hitler immediately took of the presidency and gave himself the title "Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor."
C. Examine the photograph on the opposite page.
1. What allowed the Storm Troopers to do this to opponents of the Nazi Party?
-The Law for the Protection of the People and State
2. Why would you call this situation unfair, even though it was allowed by law?
Well, the law wasn't really fair because it banned the Communist and Socialists from taking part in the election campaign. That makes the election unfair because it makes it so that Hitler will win. The measures that the Storm Troopers took were also completely unjust, and inhumane, because it is not right to put someone in prison just because of the political party that the associate with.
Worksheet 3: The Nazi Police State
A. Test your understanding of this chapter by explaining what each of the following means:
-Gestapo - The German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazi's in Germany and occupied Europe and sent Jews and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler.
-Protective Custody - The detention of a person for their own protection.
-Concentration Camps - A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established in Germany and occupied in Europe in 1933-45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
-Death Head Units - Totenkopfverbande.
B. Study document A on the opposite page. Make a detailed list of the kinds of people who were likely to be arrested as 'Enemies of the State' in Nazi Germany.
- Jews
- Communist members of Reichstag
- People who speak badly of the Fuhrer
- People who apply for unemployment and are deemed "work-shy"
- People who are part of the Bibelforscher
- Homosexuals
- Professional criminals
C1. Judging by the evidence of document B, above, what do you think were the purposes of concentration camps?
- Workcamps (killing prisoners by feeding them insufficiently and working them to death)
C2. Suggest why the prisoners were treated so badly.
- Well they really wanted to kill them but they indirectly killed most of them or had "reasons" for killing htem
D. Study the photograph above, noting the date when it was taken.
D1. For what reason might the people have been imprisoned in the concentration camp?
- Being Jewish or gay
- Being a criminal
- Disrespecting or disobeying the Fuhrer
- Not fitting to the ideals of Nazi Germany
D2. How long do you think they have been in this camp?
- The people in this picture? Probably just arrived. Their clothes are still clean and they look healthy
D3. What sort of experiences do you think they have had since being arrested?
- Being kept in small quarters on the train on their way to the camp but they just got there so not much else
-Gestapo - The German secret police under Nazi rule. It ruthlessly suppressed opposition to the Nazi's in Germany and occupied Europe and sent Jews and others to concentration camps. From 1936 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler.
-Protective Custody - The detention of a person for their own protection.
-Concentration Camps - A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established in Germany and occupied in Europe in 1933-45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
-Death Head Units - Totenkopfverbande.
B. Study document A on the opposite page. Make a detailed list of the kinds of people who were likely to be arrested as 'Enemies of the State' in Nazi Germany.
- Jews
- Communist members of Reichstag
- People who speak badly of the Fuhrer
- People who apply for unemployment and are deemed "work-shy"
- People who are part of the Bibelforscher
- Homosexuals
- Professional criminals
C1. Judging by the evidence of document B, above, what do you think were the purposes of concentration camps?
- Workcamps (killing prisoners by feeding them insufficiently and working them to death)
C2. Suggest why the prisoners were treated so badly.
- Well they really wanted to kill them but they indirectly killed most of them or had "reasons" for killing htem
D. Study the photograph above, noting the date when it was taken.
D1. For what reason might the people have been imprisoned in the concentration camp?
- Being Jewish or gay
- Being a criminal
- Disrespecting or disobeying the Fuhrer
- Not fitting to the ideals of Nazi Germany
D2. How long do you think they have been in this camp?
- The people in this picture? Probably just arrived. Their clothes are still clean and they look healthy
D3. What sort of experiences do you think they have had since being arrested?
- Being kept in small quarters on the train on their way to the camp but they just got there so not much else
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