Life in Nazi Germany How did the Nazis win over the German people?

Life in Nazi Germany

• How did the Nazis win over the German people?

Headings for your notes

• Copy these into your jotters leaving 5 lines below each, for your notes.

• FULL SENTENCES = Good practice!!

• The ‘carrot and the stick’

• The Leader Principle

• The SS

• The Gestapo

• Concentration camps

Hitlers speech to SA and SS 1933

• "SA and SS, Heil!

• The great time has now begun. Germany is now awakened. We have won power in Germany. Now we must win over the German people.

• I know, my comrades, it must have been difficult at times, when you were desiring change which didn't come, so time and time again the appeal has to be made to continue the struggle - you mustn't act yourself, you must obey, you must give in, you must submit to this overwhelming need to obey."

The ‘Carrot and the Stick’

• The Nazi’s used the Carrot and the stick principle to win over the Nazi people

• Write three lined describing the cartoon. What does the donkey represent?

• What does the stick represent, what does the carrot represent?

• Next lesson we will be looking at the benefits of the Nazi state – the ‘carrot’.

Fűhrerprinzip

• Ultimate Authority - Hitler and filters downwards.

• Hitler had final say in key areas: military operations, domestic policy.

• The ‘will of the Fűhrer’ – people did things because they thought Hitler would want those things to happen.

A stick : The Schutzstaffel (SS)

• Led by Heinrich Himmler.

• By 1933 numbered 52,000.

• Main instrument of internal rule – role in night of Long Knives.

A stick : The Gestapo

• Became most feared branch of the SS.

• Big brother

• By 1940 there were 45,000 Gestapo members and 160,000 informers.

• Rounded up opponents to Nazi Rule.

• Reputation as brutal interregators.

• After war Gestapo charged with crimes against humanity at Nuremburg trials.

The ultimate stick

Activities

• Why did the Nazis use a carrot and stick policy?

• Think about an organisation you are part of (e.g. club, school, society). Draw a table of carrot and stick methods used to keep things running smoothly.

• Enquiry Skills Pg.59