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 starter activity. Above are some of the methods the Nazis used to create a police state in Germany. Can you identify them?.  Key words: denounce Gestapo SS concentration camp. How did the Nazis control Germany?.  LOs.

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  1. starter activity Above are some of the methods the Nazis used to create a police state in Germany. Can you identify them?

  2.  Key words: denounce Gestapo SS concentration camp How did the Nazis control Germany?  LOs To study different Nazi terror methods and decide which was the most effective

  3. Put yourself into the mind of a dictator. What is the best way to control people in your country. Conduct a ‘networking’ task to decide on the most powerful ways to control people. What other methods not on the cards would you include?

  4.  Your task • Read p.44-45 (Wilkes) or p.80-81 (SHP) and take notes on the different methods used by the Nazis to control people: • Gestapo • Police & law courts • SS • Concentration camps • Henchmen like Himmler • Informers  Do modern governments use any of these techniques? What stops them from doing so?

  5. Gestapo Gestapo headquarters in Berlin – what do you notice is odd about this building? Secret police Tapped phones, opened mail Imprisoned without trial Torture Informers – esp. children

  6. Police & law courts A Nazi ‘People’s Court’ – what was odd about this court room? Under Nazi control New laws, e.g. banning marriage with Jews Severe penalties – death penalty more common

  7. SS What strange symbol betrays the true nature of the SS in this photograph of Himmler? Himmler in charge Bodyguards Physically ‘perfect’ – Aryan Waffen SS – army Death Head Units

  8. Concentration camps Sachsenhausen concentration camp on outskirts of Berlin – what do you know about the treatment of prisoners there? Political prisons Not ‘death camps’ until 1942 Range of prisoners – Jews, homosexuals, Communists, gypsies

  9. Watch this clip from ‘The Nazis a Warning from History’. What does it tell us about the strength of the police state?

  10.  Your task • What was the most effective method of controlling German people? Write an essay-style conclusion (100 words) explaining your views and supporting them with evidence from today’s lesson. Gestapo collaborators arrested after WWII

  11. Success criteria

  12.  Key words: denounce Gestapo SS concentration camp How did the Nazis control Germany?  LOs To study different Nazi terror methods and decide which was the most effective  Plenary

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