Question

In what ways did the Nazi state seek to establish total control over its people?

Answer 1

• Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933. He passed many laws to gain control over his people. The first Decree was passed on 28th February 1933.
  
• The Decree abolished freedom of speech, press, and assembly that had been guaranteed by the Weimar constitution.
  
• Concentration camps were set up and the communists and jews were sent there.
  
• On 3 March 1933, the famous Enabling Act was passed. This Act established dictatorship in Germany. All other political parties were banned. Nazi party took complete control of the economy, media, army, and judiciary.
  
• Special surveillance and security forces were created to control and order society in ways that the Nazis wanted.
  
• The police, the stormtroopers, the Gestapo, the SS and the Security Service were given extraordinary powers to control and order the society.
  
• People could now be detained in Gestapo torture chambers, rounded up and sent to concentration camps, deported at will or arrested without any legal procedures. The police forces acquired powers to rule with impunity.