the Himmler’s SS and the Gestapo political police. The SS initially started off as Hitler’s personal bodyguards‚ but under Himmler’s command‚ they evolved into a more powerful force‚ who were eventually responsible for the Final Solution. The Gestapo‚ while somewhat similar to the SS‚ were Hitler’s secret police‚ who focused on taking down any opposing political opponents‚ primarily those who went underground after the creation of the one party system in Germany. The Gestapo were responsible for the
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He helped create the Secret State Police‚ or Gestapo. But also‚ introduced the SS. Nazis helped the German police. They were funded better. The police were used to combat gangs and streetfighters. Their actual mission goal was to end these organizations from operating. The Nazis increased weapons‚ training
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Palestine‚ which is toward Israel. The Gestapo found out of these anti-German Nazi activities‚ and Sol was arrested by the Gestapo. He was intensely interrogated‚ and beaten almost murderously for over two hours. He stated‚ “There was not a piece of my body that was not black and blue from all the beatings that I received”. Though Sol was beaten to a bloody pulp‚ and the Gestapo wanted to know who else was involved‚ he did not disclose of the others. The Gestapo decided to take a rest from the beatings
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The majority of German citizens conformed to Nazi rule because of the dual positive and negative pressures exerted by the regime. The Nazis designed and aggressively propagated a programme likely to be attractive to most of the community and backed this up with an apparatus of terror to silence those not convinced. The successes of the party within the country assured widespread support. Hitler ’s foreign policy‚ that overturned the Treaty of Versailles and secured Germany a great deal of territory
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Holocaust had on people who lived through it had been fear among people and their family that had been killed during this time. The Holocaust affected thousands of people by creating a sense fear due to the creation of the Jewish people. In “The Gestapo is Born‚” the author informs us about
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that perception is often stronger than reality has never been truer than in the Nazi state of 1933-1939‚ where image played a colossal role in the anti-semitic and Hitler myth propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. Image manufactured the fearful aura of the Gestapo as well as the ubiquitous representation of the law‚ both of which created and cemented acquiescence amongst the German population. It was through the creation of perception in Nazi society that propaganda‚ terror and coercion underpinned the creation
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number of reasons that secured his status as the Fuhrer with legal and violent approaches. Hitler’s use of terror in Germany 1933 became hugely effective in keeping control of everyone in Germany. The Gestapo and the SS were the main sources of terror‚ and were affectively Hitler’s bodyguards. The Gestapo and the SS would publicly execute anyone whom they were suspicious of being trouble and undesirable. Source 1‚ shows a picture of the SS executing “foreign labour service workers” of different nationalities
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taken to the gestapo capitalize “Gestapo” station‚ all she could think about was where she would go. Who would even take her? Most definitely‚ it would be different than Mama’s swearing and Pea lowercase “pea” soup and Papa’s accordion playing and book teaching. ¨Why me?¨ she always thought. ¨Why did I survive‚ and not Mama‚ Papa‚ or the Steiners?¨ ¨Sit down here‚ child‚¨ An lowercase “an” officer instructed Liesel. He went into a back room and not soon after she heard arguing. The Gestapo had no idea
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this reason that contemporary French historian‚ Henry Rousso‚ described the film as “more provocative than thought-provoking.” Central to Malle’s film is the eponymous hero‚ Lucien‚ a young Frenchman who joins the Gestapo. The film portrays Lucien’s experiences of working for the Gestapo while giving us a strong insight into his private life in which he is in love with a Jewish girl‚ France. This essay will critically examine to what extent Rousso’s evaluation of “Lacombe Lucien” is credible by analysing
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this camp." Ramsey replies that it is their duty to try to escape. After several failed escape attempts on the first day‚ the POWs settle into the prison camp. Gestapo and SS agents bring Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (RAF) to the camp and deliver him to von Luger. Known as "Big X‚" Bartlett is the principal organizer of escapes and Gestapo agent Kuhn orders that he be kept under the most restrictive permanent security confinement‚ which Col. von Luger‚
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