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QUESTION ONE
Explain why the SS established control over Germany’s police organisations.
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QUESTION TWO
Who was more effective at controlling the German population. The SS or the Gestapo?
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QUESTION ONE Explain why the SS established control over Germany’s police organisations. (12 marks) QUESTION TWO Who was more effective at controlling the German population. The SS or the Gestapo? (12 marks)
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sarah & yasmin
12/1/2013 05:35:27 pm
The SS established control over Germany’s police organisations because the German police organisation had power over the German people, by the SS taking over they could arrest people without trial and take them straight to concentration camps. They also could arrest people without any reason.
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Han & Chlo
12/1/2013 05:41:34 pm
www ~ good important point
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Han & Chlo
12/1/2013 05:35:41 pm
The SS was a protection squad that was the principal instrument of internal rule in Germany. They were established before the Nazi party gained power, and by 1933 had grown to the strength of 52,000 members. Members were approved of by Himmler if they fit into the Aryan criteria. Himmler, under Hitler’s orders desired to maintain order within Germany. The SS were the face of tyranny; the public would see them in the street donning their intimidating uniforms and feel terrified. The SS was an expansion of the German police force, going from municipal (state police) to one united organisation across Germany. The SS were able to arrest people without trial and search houses without warrants, instilling fear amongst the public, encouraging them to conform to Hitler’s ideals.
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Sophie & Alfie
12/1/2013 05:42:34 pm
WWW: Good explanation of the role of the SS and use of examples & statistics
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Sophie & Alfie
12/1/2013 05:35:49 pm
The SS established control over Germany’s state police organisations to achieve supreme power by gaining intelligence through increased control as they became the largest oppression organisation. As they were effective as bodyguards, it was assumed they would do a sufficient job as a police organisation. After the SA became an embarrassment to the Nazis, the SS grew in importance. They participated in the Night of the Long Knives, and became the replacement of the old officers, although perhaps more elitist. The SS became ideological examples of Aryans; all officers had to be recognisably Aryan, and intimidating. This Aryan example of racial purity reinforced the aim of volksegemeinschaft. Moreover, the Death’s head units of the SS were set up to run concentration camps, while the Waffen SS were the military branch.
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Nicole and Alex
12/1/2013 05:41:40 pm
WWW: Lots of key facts within this answer.
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Nicole and Alex Q1.
12/1/2013 05:36:13 pm
The SS became more powerful after the Night of the Long Knives 30th June 1934 when Hitler went and killed lots of untrustworthy SA members and many of the main leaders. Therefore, the SS grew in numbers many of them being pure Aryans. Additionally, each state had its own police force however; Hitler did not like this so with the SS as the main form of terror and police each state had the police from the same group so they all followed the same rules within Germany. Himmler was the leader of the SS and between Hitler and Himmler they wanted to make the whole of Germany a totaltalitarian race which meant it was completely pure and they had control over every aspect of peoples lives.
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Olivia & Rebecca
12/1/2013 05:40:14 pm
WWW: made some good points, quite informative
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Olivia & Rebecca
12/1/2013 05:43:54 pm
EBI: Remember to mention the 'racial unpure'
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Olivia & Rebecca
12/1/2013 05:36:53 pm
The SS established control over Germany’s police organisations because police states were municipal. The control of the Gestapo and the SS generated a very powerful organisation that terrorized Germany. The SS were the main Nazi party in the organization; by 1939, there were over 240,000 members. The SS became the chief police of the Nazi party partially due to the Night of the Long Knives weakening of the SA.
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Sarah + Yasmin
12/1/2013 05:42:26 pm
www - They kind of understood the question which was a start and they used facts to back up their answers which was good.
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Sarah & Yasmin Q2
12/1/2013 05:49:53 pm
The Gestapo were more effective because they had more ways in which they could get information from people like; tapping into phone lines and they has a network of informers which they relied on to gather information about anyone that was anti-Nazi or spoke ill of Hitler and the regime. They were also more effective when it came to terror as people were aware of the Gestapo but did not know who was involved therefore this scared people more as they would then have to be extremely careful what they said in public/on the phone as anyone could be listening, it would have also paranoid the German people as although there were lonely 28 members of the Gestapo people didn’t know this so thought that they were everywhere this means that people wouldn’t speak badly of the Nazi’s.
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Alex and Nicole Q.2.
12/1/2013 05:56:32 pm
The Gestapo were an effective source of terror because nobody knew who the members were so literally nobody could hide so it was more difficult to do anything that in anyway disagrees with Hitler as either someone from the gestapo would see you or another German citizen would turn you in which would then mean you were tortured and sent to a concentration camp.
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Olivia Rebecca
12/1/2013 06:01:57 pm
WWW: very informative, made good points
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Olivia & Rebecca
12/1/2013 05:58:44 pm
The Gestapo were a more effective instrument of terror because of their reputation for being ‘all seeing and all knowing’. The Gestapo induced fear and paranoia in ordinary Germans; informers would give information on anti-Nazi activity with the threat of arrest and torture prominent among Germans. Despite the fact that in reality the Gestapo was a very small organisation with only 20,000 officers, the paranoia they imposed on ordinary Germans led to the eradication of political debate and criticism was driven underground. People believed that there was Gestapo agents and everywhere informers everywhere and they adjusted their behaviour.
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Sophie & Alfie
12/1/2013 05:59:17 pm
The Gestapo were successful in achieving terror as they used many different methods at their disposal such as; executions, concentration camps and sterilisation, between 1933 and 45 they detained 800,000 opponents so that make prisons and arrests a large method of their works. Because they were also arresting such large numbers of people this could have given the illusion that they were in large numbers but they in fact were not. The Gestapo were successful at affecting Germans psychologically, as some claimed they were everywhere; however this was just paranoia as members of the gestapo made up a small amount of the population, therefore they had a bigger impact than the SS who just produced a sense of fear within the people.
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Han & Chlo
12/1/2013 06:00:14 pm
The gestapo were the state secret police. They operated on a network of informants who would spy on people who were thought to be ‘anti-Nazi’, meaning because people didn’t know the identity of the Gestapo members they couldn’t trust anyone. They tapped into telephones and went through the mail of suspicious Germans. This inflicted a massive amount of terror across Germany, particularly those who were acting against the Nazis for example hiding Jews or being part of a resistance. They had many methods of terror that they used such as arresting people in the middle of the night, torture, beatings, sterilisation, intimidation and sending people to prison or even concentration camps compared to the SS who were open about their brutality. The fact that the Gestapo were so secret, this initiated Germans who were hiding something and parents of Hitler Youth members who didn’t not agree with their child’s indoctrinated ideas rather than those who were Nazi.
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