1. The Police State Learning Objectives:
To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
To evaluate the success of these methods.

2. LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
The Police State
“Terror is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.”

3. The Police State LOGIN: islandschool PASSWORD: historians
LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
The Police State
Upon taking power, Hitler passed a law allowing him to appoint civil servants and judges. Next, Hitler created a police state, led by Heinrich Himmler.
You will now interview Hitler and gather key information about the way in which Nazi Germany controlled the people.
LOGIN: islandschool
PASSWORD: historians

4. Keeping Control of Germany
LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
How did Hitler keep control of Germany?
The Terror State
Propaganda
Secret police called the Gestapo would spy on and arrest enemies of the state.
Mass Rallies, Posters and Propaganda films.
Keeping Control of Germany
The Nazis controlled and censored the radio & newspapers.
SS were responsible for running the concentration camps.
Popularity
School children were indoctrinated with Nazi ideas at school.
Everyone was scared of being arrested by the Gestapo and being put in a concentration camp.
Ripping up the Treaty of Versailles.
Hitler Youth & the Young Maidens.
Creating Jobs

5. LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
The Terror State
Both the Gestapo and the SS were run by Heinrich Himmler.
The Gestapo employed an army of spies who would inform on people.

6. Enemies of the State Communists Social Democrats Jews Trade Unionists.
LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
Enemies of the State
Communists
Social Democrats
Jews
Trade Unionists.
Work Shy
Homosexuals
Gypsies
Germans who bought from Jews
Pacifists
Radical Christian Organisation
Anyone who criticised Hitler or the Nazi Party.

7. LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
Enemies of the State
A list of German women who were still purchasing goods from Jewish shops.
Printed to scare or terrorise other people into not buying from the Jews.

8. Fear How did the Terror State Work?
LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
How did the Terror State Work?
You are imprisoned for up to six months doing hard physical labour.
When you are released you tell everybody what has happened to you
Gestapo Spies inform on you
Fear
You are handed over to the SS who run the concentration camps.
You are woken up by the Gestapo at 1 am in the morning and told that you have 5 minutes to pack your bags.
By signing this form you are giving your consent to be put into a concentration camp.
Days or maybe weeks later you are interviewed and asked to sign form D11
You are arrested and thrown into a cell at the police station

9. How did the Terror State Work?
LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
How did the Terror State Work?
Team 1:
Protection
The SA
The SS
German Army
The Gestapo
Concentration Camps
Team 2:
Hitler’s henchmen Himmler
Goebbels
Rohm
Goering
Heydrich
Each team must create a PowerPoint outlining
the key details about your topic in the first half;
then send it to me; then present!

10. How did the Terror State Work?
LO: To discover the strategies used by the Nazis to achieve total control.
How did the Terror State Work?
Useful Sources
Spartacus
John D Clare
BBC Bitesize
Text Book