... established constitution. The passage of the Act led to a one party system in which the Nazi party legally became a totalitarian regime. The Act also paved the way for Hitler's secret police the Schutzstoffel (S.S.) to be formed. Under the command of Henrich Himmler all political opponents, real or imagined were promptly arrested and held without trial. Prison camps were created to hold ... Gestapo was to ensure obedience and to stop the simplest form of revolution from entering the mind. It created a guise of futility and despair. The futility of eluding the secret police also helped loc...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the notoriety of the action so that the people would not lose popular confidence in him. His solution was OVRA, a secret police force who built concentration camps on the Lipari Islands for anyone who opposed Mussolini and the Fascists. Similar to the Nazi's and the Bolsheviks ... , a secret police force ensure any political ideas or people that endangered the party would be dealt with quietly and effectively. So now, with his power ... he had to do and became a dictator. Following in the footsteps of Mussolini, immediately all other political parties were banned, newspapers were censor...

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... also read "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", a totally falsified document that was written by the pre-WWI Russian royal secret police in a cynical attempt to divert public blame of Russia's trouble from the monarchy to the Jews. The 'protocols' describe an imaginary ... celebrated their victory by marching outside the government offices. The next morning they took control of the police. They replaced many senior police officers with Nazis. They expanded the secret police with Nazi officers. Four days later Hitler used his emergency authority to issue an order that allowed .....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... assumed the dual position of prime minister and party leader (duce), and he used the party's militia to eliminate his enemies by intimidation and violence. Mussolini's government also controlled the police, muzzled the press, and censored academic activity. Meanwhile, Mussolini preached the end of class conflict and its replacement by national unity. He began to reorganize the economy and labor, taking ... mass party, led by one man, which forms the hardcore of the regime and which is typically superior to or intertwined with the governmental bureaucracy. 2. A system of terror by the pol...

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... degenerate books and paintings, sterilized mentally and physically disabled people, and enslaved and murdered millions of people who were enemies of the Reich. To uphold these ideologies, Hitler created the "secret police," known as the Gestapo. The head of the Gestapo, who reported only to Hitler himself, was Heinrich Himmler. Hitler then created the "New Order," which would supposedly lead to industrialization ... to Eastern Siberia seven times between April 1902 and March 1913. He escaped many times to return and wreak havoc upon the tsarist government. In 1905, he went to the secret...

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... the listeners on an emotional roller coaster. He denounced all ideas that were proposed by Jews, socialists, communists, and Allies saying that they had a secret plot to bring down Germany so that it could never achieve that greatness it deserved, but he would always leave hope of a great unity (Payne ... beer hall. Hitler's storm troopers surrounded the building and then Hitler burst into tavern brandishing a pistol. He said that "the national revolution has begun and the police and army are marching under the Nazi banner."" (Ayer, 40-43) This was a complete lie. Hitler forced the lead...

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... a general offer." This shows us how Max does not feel threatened by his sexuality and how he has previously thrown it in peoples faces. He had never considered keeping it a secret until he is on the run from the Gestapo and he meets his uncle Freddie, who suggests the idea in act one, scene three, page 24. He says "Why couldn ... the old days, eh?" When Alvin first appears in the play he is described as "too casual to be important, yet too smart to be bullied in the streets by police." Even his appearance suggests that he doesn't really know who he is or where he should place himself. H...

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• Grade Level: High School