The Nazi Terror 1933-1945
"That through the use of many kinds of terror tactics and violence, the Nazis dominated Germany between 1933 and 1945. This control was of an anti-Semitic and pro Aryan nature. These extreme tactics were used to gain control of the German people, and were put in to action through organisations such as Hitler's SS (Schutzstaffel), Gestapo and the SA (Sturmabteilung). These ideas where specifically aimed at the Jewish community, and were brutally enforced resulting in the deaths and suffering of many people."The Nazis called it the Jewish problem and it had to be solved. The SS, Gestapo and the SA used terror tactics, street violence and various methods of extermination. In an effort to control the Jewish problem. The SA (Sturmabteilung) were the enforcers (the thugs) of the Nazi movement. During the beginning of the Nazi regime, the SA carried out violence against Jews and opponents to the Nazis. The Schutzstaffel (SS), was created by Adolf Hitler in 1925 to serve as his personal bodyguard. In time the SS grew in size and gained many police and military powers. From 1929 to 1945 it was led by Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was racist and he tested applicants to the SS for their racial purity and physical perfection, a
Through the SS, Gestapo and the SA the Nazi ideas of anti-Semitism and the purification of the German race were upheld with violence and terror. This was done to keep control and order in Germany. The main purpose of eliminating the Jews was to achieve a pure German race, as the Nazis felt they were superior to all other races particularly the Jewish people. Newspapers were positioned on street corners promoting anti-Semitism, "Der Sturmer, is displayed at many street corners; there are special noticeboards, and each one bears a slogan in large letters: 'The Jews are our misfortune' or 'whoever knows the Jew, knows the devil'". (Klemperer, 1935, 113). With the ideas of Aryan superiority and using fear and force, the Nazis carried out many actions against the Jews in a way to control them. In April 1933 the Nazis boycotted all of the Jewish shops in Germany. In September 1933, only farmers who could prove there was no Jewish blood in their family since 1880 could inherit land. Then in September 1935 the Nuremberg laws were passed. One of these was the Reich citizenship law which stated, in part, that "A Jew may not be a citizen of the Reich. He has no vote... he may not fill public office" and "Jewish officials will be retired on December 31st, 1935." Another of the Nuremberg laws was for the protection of German blood in German honour: "Marriages between Jews and nationals of German or similar blood are forbidden." In July 1938, Jewish doctors were forbidden to work in Germany and all Jews had to apply for special identity cards and show them when they were demanded. "The Jew baiting and pogrom atmosphere grow day by day. Der Sturmer. Goebbels' speeches (' exterminate like fleas and bed bugs!'), acts of violence in Berlin, Breslau, yesterday also here in Prager Strasse" (Klemperer, 1935, 122). After a Polish Jew assassinated a German diplomat in Paris on
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