Nazis' Use of Persecution and Power of the SS to Create a Police State in 1930's

Nazis' Use of Persecution and Power of the SS to Create a Police State in 1930's

Germany was ruled completely by the state from 1933 (Hitler comes to

power) to 1945. It was a police state the one that had all the power,

it was not a democracy. The power of the SS and Gestapo were very

important in enforcing the law and persecution was started.

The state has complete authority the people could be arrested to

prevent them from committing a crime. They didn't have defence, the

law is used to attack the people, not to defend them.

Many laws where introduced to Germany during the police state. This

proved by the introduction of the law for protected custody (D-11).

The Gestapo and SS were used to enforce law and order through violence

and fear. Several laws were passed that enforced the idea of a police

state and created it. They passed the Enbling law; it gave the nazi

party the power they needed to bring their ideas into action. When the

parties voted themselves out of the Reichstag. They lost any power and

what emerged from the law was a police state, a dictatorship.

When the Nuremburg laws where passed, it made the persecution official

and where fundamental to the establishment of tirany. It took away

Jewish rights. The Gestapo and the SS were convinced nazis who were in

total agreement with Hitler, which is why they had so much power;

because Hitler trusted and needed them to bring fear into the state.

That's why the Nuremburg laws where accepted. So making persecution

official helped to make a police state.

Local police drew up lists of suspects, the list was given to Gestapo.

People were arrested very early in the morning by men in black, they

were shut up in a cell in a police station and eventually they were

given a D-11; a form in which you agreed to be imprisoned and the

people had to sing it. They were taken away to concentration camps. It

was very hard to obtain justice because of the law and the political