... trying to ensure that everybody was doing things in accord with Big Brother's goal. Russia, Italy, Germany also had secret police to monitor their people. KGB, Squadristi, and Gestapo are some of the names used for these organizations of secret police, respectively. In 1984, family could not even be trusted. Anyone at anytime could turn one another in for whatever reason causing everyone to ... fend for themselves and only for themselves. Everyone was considered a spy for secret police. This is true in case of Germany. In nineteen thirty-nine, eighty-two percent of all Germans boys and ...

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... same way as an effective deterrent in punishing those who spoke out against the party. Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini each had their own secret police. Hitler's were called storm troopers (SA), used to arrange violence to eliminate Hitler's enemies. Stalin used the GPU (the new ... to make enemies of the state give false confessions of crimes against the state or party, and consequently condemned to prison or death. Mussolini's secret police were called the Fasci, who took an oath of allegiance to him, and used the same tactics as Hitler and Stalin in silencing their enemies ... to pres...

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... million European Jews had been killed. The Red Terror of the Russian Revolution used terror on a different format to that of the German genocide. Lenin introduced the Cheka the Russian secret police similar to the SS. The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot . When ... was established much like the Cheka and the SS as the threat of counter-revolution grew so did the measures of the secret police. In 1951-2 the police set-up a mass movement to eliminate the threat. Special ...

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... making sure they don't steal anything or do anything else unorthodox. If they do, then the shoplifter is arrested and prosecuted by police or store personal so they can take the thief to Jail. The telescreens did almost the same thing, watching everyone's to make ... saying something privately to one's mother, who could end up being a part of the Thought Police, and you would have never known. How do the Thought Police compare to undercover cops and secret agents? Don't they do the same thing? The government could suspect a person of unlawful sexual ... dealings and they would send dis...

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... to form assemblies. Hitler used "Suppression of Opposition" and "Coercions of Force" to eliminate those who threatened his newly acquired power. With the use of his secret police or the Gestapo, Hitler eliminated the leaders of his S.A. and all the other leaders that were seen as a threat to his leadership. This was known as the "Night of ... any choice when it comes to a political party because only the Nazis were present. Rule of Law was also rejected because even when suspected of going against the Nazis the secret police had the right to execute them. Germany was successful in getti...

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... represented the most loyal Nazi SA. When Henrich Himmler took over the SS in 1929 they began wearing the distinctive black uniforms and Death's head symbols and became the party's police force. The SS under Himmler now represented the pinnacle of the Aryan race, the greatest, most loyal and most racially pure in the Reich. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1932 ... the SS contained 52000 men, up from 280 in 1925, and they became not only the party's police and security force but also Germany's. By the start of 1934 most of Germany's police forces were coordinated under Himmler's SS. In A...

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... represented the most loyal Nazi SA. When Henrich Himmler took over the SS in 1929 they began wearing the distinctive black uniforms and Death's head symbols and became the party's police force. The SS under Himmler now represented the pinnacle of the Aryan race, the greatest, most loyal and most racially pure in the Reich. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1932 ... the SS contained 52000 men, up from 280 in 1925, and they became not only the party's police and security force but also Germany's. By the start of 1934 most of Germany's police forces were co-ordinated under Himmler's SS. In ...

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... or Weltanschauung. The second feature of the six-point syndrome is the concept of a single mass party, led by a dictator, hierarchically organized and monolific. Thirdly, the concept of the "Terrorist police control", which not only supports but also, supervises the party. The fourth feature is the Monopoly control over communications or propaganda. The fifth point in this classic model of totalitarianism ... with the Slavic sub-humans and their Jewish-Bolshevik leadership. The rise of the SS "State" is another aspect of Hitler's ideological radicalization that supports Bracher's argume...

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... the Gypsies' behavior under control. Nazis believed associating behavior with race, criminality with Gypsies. They mainly suffered the persecution of police. In 1936, Heinrich Hammer, the leader of the German police in the Reich Ministry of Interior, gave orders to the police that the freedom of Gypsies should be restricted. New laws were ordered restricting Gypsy's travel and trade, also incarcerating them. Multiple ... and mental problems. Here, Hitler seized the chance, and called upon Dr. Brandt to take charge of this "mercy killing". The 'Euthanasia' Program for Children Hitler org...

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... staff guard or SS for short. The SS took a black uniform modeled after the Italian Fascists. Josef Berchtold, was the groups" first leader. The Gestapo, established in 1933, was a secret state police. All these groups were used to carry out mass murders of anyone or any groups that posed a threat to Hitler and the party's beliefs. They would also create, destroy, and ... dealing with issues centering on anti-government. The issues are gun control, taxes, Constitution liberties, and federal regulations. These militia groups believe that the government is tyrannical, and there is a secret...

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... anxiety about Germany's declining birthrate and the government's preoccupations.) Groups, which were often linked with the political Left, which advocated birth control or presented contraceptive advice were dissolved by the police and attempts were made to stop the supply of contraceptives to chemist and doctors. Education was also a priority of the Nazis to make sure that German women were not to ... day. As the war continued women began to play an important role in the employment sector Hermann Goring and Albert Speer, they were both in charge of the Gestapo (German Secret Police), t...

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... leader and he had to accept the decisions dealt to him. Hitler faced his opposition in a much different way. He had many groups such as the Secret Police and his Storm Troopers whose main function was to police the state and destroy opposition. "Those people or groups who sought to oppose were either suppressed, intimidated or eliminated." (Cantwell, 1994: 274) The people who ... ...

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... born out of many extraordinary scenarios all coming together. One of those butterfly effect scenarios in some ways, starting with, "the shot heard around the world". After many secret alliances between various countries in Europe were made in the early 1900s, Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. (lecture) After the resulting war was the string of events to cause ... 1923 he leads a group in whats called, "The Beer Hall Putsch". This was an attempted coup to take over Bavaria, but it fails when a brawl with the German police resulted in the groups arrest including Hitler. (Lectur...

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... reaching his goal. On March 5, 1933, after the election, Hitler and his Nazi party started to breakdown the existing government and Hitler became the dictator of Germany. Hitler had started a secret police force called SS officers, who fought those opposing Hitler as the leader and paved the path for Hitler to take over. The Nazi party had ended democracy and they did ... ...

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... rose to power in 1933 on a promise to destroy the Treaty Of Versailles that stripped Germany off land. Hitler organized the Gestapo as the only executive branch and secret terror organization of the Nazi police system. In 1935, he made the Nuremberg Laws that forbid Germans to marry Jews or commerce with them. Hitler thought that the Jews were a nation less parasite ... ...

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... the state by dividing people into classes. A process of repression in both Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, dealt efficiently with those who remained aloof, critical or overtly reactionary. Italy established a secret police force in the form of the OVRA, Germany established the Gestapo. Such forces were themselves above the law. Special courts had the power to sentence people to death for treason ... ...

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... using means such as violence, harassment, policies and extreme propaganda. Anyone who was an opponent of the regime could not profess his or her beliefs without being caught by the Secret Police State organization. "Opposing the Nazi Government brought the risk of denunciation." The left wing communist party on the other hand was demolished by clever manipulation. When a former communist burnt down ... ...

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... of a rival party meeting. They wanted to start a nationalist revolution in Bavaria, and let it spread all over Germany. Other far right wing parties collaborated and marched on Berlin. The police didn't support the march and so shots were fired. Four policemen and sixteen Nazis were killed. Hitler stood trial for the failed putsch, and became famous for his stand. The ... after Hitler took control of the Nazi party, the National Socialists were failing. They could not get elected to parliament and received only 2.6% of the vote in the 1928 elections. A secret government report of the ti...

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... in the Making: After the Putsch's failure, Hitler escaped to the country villa of his Harvard-educated aide, Ernst Hanfstaengl, where a doctor set his dislocated shoulder. A few days later the police arrested him there and took him to Landsberg Prison. In prison, Hitler went on a hunger strike for several weeks. At first he refused even to give evidence for his coming ... and learned from the doctor that she had done it for the love of him. (Hitler, 1978, p. 45) The Road to War: On January 30 Hitler publicly hinted at his secret plane to exterminate Europe's Jews. "Today I shall act the...

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... revenge for the fatherland he also put them above the law able to commit any crime to serve his purpose. When Hitler rose to power the SA became the political police force. The SS may be even more to blame. They were the most handsome and the best of the SA and military who took part in the every day killing ... actually took delight in their destruction. He was also responsible for the killing of Germans who were not up to his standards. Many Germans with handicaps were killed in his secret programs. I"m not sure how Goebbels survived around him for so long. At the end of the war he at...

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