Topic overview
What you need to know
The Nazis created a dictatorship through law, terror, censorship and propaganda, while reshaping youth, education, work and family life around their racial and political aims.
Exam tip
Separate control from consent: explain both coercion and the reasons some Germans supported or accommodated the regime.
Core knowledge
Key facts for Nazi Control and Life in Germany
Enabling Act
The March 1933 law that allowed Hitler's government to make laws without the Reichstag for four years.
Night of the Long Knives
The 1934 purge in which the SS killed SA leaders and other opponents, securing army support.
Gestapo
The secret state police that investigated and arrested opponents of the Nazi regime.
SS
An elite Nazi organisation led by Himmler that controlled policing, concentration camps and racial policy.
Nuremberg Laws
The 1935 laws that removed German citizenship from Jewish people and banned marriage with non-Jews.
Hitler Youth
Nazi youth organisations that promoted physical training, military values and Nazi ideology.
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