The terror method was used mainly on the Jews, Communists, and Gypsies,etc, rather than the general German Public. It was to secure and preserve discipline and eliminate any threats or challenges to Hitler’s leadership. All the Nazis’ major opponents were either killed, exiled or put in prison. Examples of this technique include the Gestapo Secret Police and the Concentration Camps around Germany between 1933 and the late 1930s. The new laws enabled the Gestapo to arrest anyone on suspicion and send them to concentration camps without trial or explanation. The Nazis would not tolerate criticism and anyone who said negative remarks about the party or Hitler in public would be arrested. The illusion of the Gestapo made people assume that the Terror system was larger than it actually was and it eventually got to the stage where it relied on informants. The informants believed they were doing a good duty and so that they would not be arrested for something else.
The SA were Hitler's own private army that he set up in 1921. Supposedly the SA was formed to protect speakers at Nazi meetings from intimidation by left wing opponents. In practise however, the SA often started the violence themselves by breaking up the meetings of the Social Democratic Party which often ended in drunken brawls.
The SS had been private body guards for Hitler and other Nazi leaders. It had only 500 men but Heinrich Himmler was responsible for building it into an elite force of 50 0000 men. In 1934 they helped Hitler crush the SA and the role of the SS also changed. They become the main means of terrorising or intimidating Germans into obedience. The SS had almost unlimited power to arrest people without trial, search houses or confiscate property. They also ran the concentration camps.
Good...It shows that the people were mistreated thus had the feeling of fear towards the Nazi. It also tells me that the Nazi is unfair and harsh,enabling them to be rulers without disruption if anybdy dared go against them.....
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