... enforce Nazi ideas and policies in the German people. The two organisations established to be responsible for this task were the SS and the Gestapo. The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) or Secret State Police, was set up by Hermann Goering in 1933. It was connected to the SS, which was a military corps set up in 1925 and came under the management of Himmler ... the state. To discover the enemies of the state, watch them and render them harmless at the right moment it is the duty of the political police. In order to fulfil this duty, the political police must be free to use every means su...

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... the Third Reich; soon the Gestapo emerged, developed to stifle all dissent. The totalitarian nature of the Nazi party can also be evidenced in their use of a secret police. For the first time in history, a secret police had virtually absolute power; this was the Gestapo. They were responsible for rounding up communists, Jews and others who were considered a threat to the Nazi Regime. Totalitarian ... characteristics of this powerful secret police can be recognised from its contrived atmosphere of repression and violence, being the most feared terrorist organisation of its time. Dr Werne...

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... Moscow show trails that convicted army officers and prominent old Bolsheviks of monsterous crimes. By 1939, 98 of the 139 central committee members were shot that had been elected. His secret-police " KGB" elimated millions of innicent people including those in concentration camps. He convinced himself to be a genius in every field of human endeavor and people agreed because they feared him ... and his secret police. In 1939 he feared the growth of Nazi Germany and made the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Adoft Hitler. But in 1941 Germans invaded the Soviet Union. The angered Stalin expanded ... ...

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... 't have a very high opinion of the Fuhrer, but he likes to keep it quiet or otherwise he says we might get a visit from the Gestapo, the German secret police. Anyway, back to our little talk. As I said, me and my father had a chat. He told me all he knew about Hitler and how he came ... ago. The Nazis are forcing people to believe what the Fuhrer thinks is right. My father carried on conversation. He says that the police are a key contributing factor to the power that Hitler has gained and continues to hold. Slowly, he tells me, Nazi groups shuffled themselves in amid the ... police an...

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... and other allies, therefore costing them the war. Although both were very different in how their military was, both were somewhat similar in their beliefs and thoughts. Both men had secret servicemen working underneath, using them to destroy anyone who did not share their beliefs, or their views on how society should be like. For Hitler, his beliefs were that the ... eventually the world, needed to live by. Mussolini believed that all people should be loyal to their country, and those who were not were not worthy of living. With his secret police called the Squadristi, Mussolini would k...

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... no separation between private life and politics. There were no rights of individuals that state must respect. Nazis controlled every organization and every step of daily life of people. Gestapo, secret police, ended collective bargaining and strikes of trade union by arresting its leaders. Nazis did not destroy upper classes of the Old Regime. Hitler wanted from them loyalty, obedience and war ... with his arm in Nazi salute. Everything was performed to impress Germans and world with giant power, intensity, unity and perfection of fuehrer. Nazis ruled with terror. Their regime became po...

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... , " In Uganda, Brazil, Iran, Paraguay, South Africa- wherever a few rule many- the possession of weapons is restricted to the ruling class and to their supporting apparatus: the military, the police, the secret police." He says this to show examples of what the United States must not do. This would be an unfair advantage. This is the perfect case of money buying power. Adam ... ...

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... Jews, and any others he deemed inferior because they had no rights. He also justified the Holocaust because he was "cleansing" the Aryan race. He planed to do this with secret police and armies. He created "camps" where he sent Jews, who were forced to do intensive labor on little or no food. Hitler's belief that non-Aryans were inferior justified in ... with them. The Jewish I.D.'s were marked with a "J" stamp on them, they were also required to changed their Middle names- "Sarah" for women, "Israel" for men. This made them easier for police to identify them. Many Jews were sent to cam...

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... but it was earlier than they had planned this was because Margot (-Anne's sister) was called up by the police to register. The Frank family chose to stay inside the building were Otto had his office this hiding place was known as the "secret annex". The Franks stayed in their hiding place for around 2 years they had little idea of what was ... sure of herself and what was going on as she grew up. However on the 4th August 1944(3 days after Anne's last entry ) they were all discovered by German Security Police and Dutch Nazis. All of the people living in the annex were arrested and sent ...

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... the windows of around 7500 commercial establishments that were owned by Jews, and looted their wares as well. While all of this chaos was occurring during the night, the Gestapo (Secret State Police) and the SS arrested approximately 30,000 Jewish males, and took them to prisons in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen. Once Kristallnacht ended, German leaders such as Hermann Goring were ... ...

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... quickly moved toward a dictatorship, outlawing civil liberties and all political parties except the Nazi Party. It did not take long for them to establish a totalitarian government. Hitler also organized a powerful secret police force called the Gestapo. Another one of Hitler's creations was concentration camps for anyone who was suspected of opposing Nazism. In these camps Jews and other minorities were killed or ... ...

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... quickly moved toward a dictatorship, outlawing civil liberties and all political parties except the Nazi Party. It did not take long for them to establish a totalitarian government. Hitler also organized a powerful secret police force called the Gestapo. Another one of Hitler's creations was concentration camps for anyone who was suspected of opposing Nazism. In these camps Jews and other minorities were killed or ... ...

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... and what happened to them while they were held there. Auschwitz - Birkenau was located about two miles outside the town of Oswiecim, Poland. The leader of the SS and German police, Heinrich Himmler, ordered its construction, making it the largest of them all. The purpose of its creation was for the extermination of a huge mass of people. In March 1941, construction ... done throughout the time which proves how low the Nazi's were. Despite everything they went through, the prisoners offered constant resistance to the SS men. They would gather together in secret meetings and sabotage agai...

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... was the right time to take over the government. On November 11,1923, Hitler and his 3,000 men marched to Berlin in an attempt to take it over. The German police were waiting. This was also part of the Beer hall Putsch. Shooting broke out between the two parties. Sixteen Nazis and three policemen laid dead from this massacre. Hitler was ... (Denny). The Japanese were able to continue to hold off allied forces. Truman decided to end the war against Japan quickly and decisively with the use of the United State's secret weapon, the atomic bomb. Bombs were dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagas...

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... . The book narrated by Eliezer. Eliezer is a young Jewish teenager who is from Sighet in Hungarian. Eliezer's instructor of Jewish Mysticism, Moshe the Beadle, is taken by the Gestapo, German secret police, and led to the woods where he and everyone else on his train to be killed. Moshe doesn't get killed and returns to his home town to warn the locals ... ...

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... -1945). Throughout this time, Hitler has the Night of all Knives, which is when he finds all people that may be rooting against him, and kills them. The Gestapo, Hitler secret police, is formed and people against Hitler must be aware of them. Adolf is decreasing the unemployment for the Germans, but increasing unemployment for non-German citizens. He is doing that ... ...

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... a revolution." So his supporters and he capture the government leaders of the state of Bavaria and Hitler declared himself the new political leader of Bavaria. All seemed well until the police fired on him, and his "revolution" was stopped. Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but only served 9 months. During his short stay in prison, Hitler formed his mad ideology ... and France wouldn't do anything if he invaded Poland, but he was wrong. He saw GB and France start negotiations with the Soviet Union, and signed a non-aggression pact and a secret plan to divide up Poland amongst t...

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... be a German associate of Othello who worked as a teller in his bank. Little would Othello know, that Iago was really a Nazi Activist who would soon be a member of the German Secret Police, the Shutz Staffel. Over time Iago would become increasingly jealous of Othello and his envy would turn to hatred and prejudice. In the end, he would hurt Othello where it ... ...

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... vote for the Nazi party. He also had the Gestapo. They arrested the Jews and sent them to concentration camps. Stalin too had his own group. It was called the secret police. They spied on everyone in town to make sure no one was doing anything wrong. All of these men were good speakers or orators. When they held a meeting or rally ... ...

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... were being constructed with a top speed. However, hardly anyone protested; the few who did were murdered. Two major groups persecuted Jews, the press and the Gestapo and SS. Gestapo means secret state police and SS stands for protection squad. The main aim of these two structures was to protect Hitler from all kind of enemy but especially from the communists. ...

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