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Features of the Totalitarian Dictatorship

Features of the Totalitarian Dictatorship. Germany 1933-39. Single Party State. All other parties banned by Hitler using powers granted in the Enabling Act Trade Unions replaced with state organisation Local Government taken over by Nazi's Concentration Camps and Gestapo cells for dissenters.

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Features of the Totalitarian Dictatorship

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  1. Features of the Totalitarian Dictatorship Germany 1933-39

  2. Single Party State • All other parties banned by Hitler using powers granted in the Enabling Act • Trade Unions replaced with state organisation • Local Government taken over by Nazi's • Concentration Camps and Gestapo cells for dissenters

  3. The SS • Led by Heinrich Himmler • Controlled the Gestapo • Role was to enforce compliance • Arrested political enemies and sent them to concentration camps using Form D-11 (a self referral form!)

  4. Persecution • Untermenschen - subhuman • Boycotts of shops and villification of customers • Nuremburg laws remove rights of Jews • Kristallnacht • 1936, Reich Church created • Concordat with Catholic Church • Priests and pastors arrested if sermons were anti-nazi

  5. Education • Nazified curriculum • Based on Social Darwinism • Importance of 'blood purity' • Gender specific - military focus for boys, motherhood based for girls • Eugenics • Geography / History taught to show the wrongs of Versailles

  6. Youth • Hitler Youth organisation • Groups for boys and girls aged 10 to 18 • Military style - developed toughness - for boys • Attendance poor - made compulsory in 1939 • Some teachers complained about the impact on pupils

  7. Propaganda • Joseph Goebbels was Minister of Propaganda and Enlightenment • Reich Chamber of Commerce (1933) controlled literature, art, music and radio • Olympics in 1936 and Nuremburg Rallies • Films such as Triumph of the Will • Censorship introduced

  8. Homework • In what ways did the Nazi Government control people’s lives? • How did Hitler try and influence the next generation of Germans? • What was life like in Germany for those believed to be Sub-human in Germany? • Do you think Hitler and the Nazis were popular amongst the “Aryan Race”

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