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300,000 Communists were imprisoned and 30,000 were executed. There were warnings, job dismissals, inprisonment, concentration camps, executions. Whoever did not want to follow the Nazis was killed.

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Army's heads were conservative as were most of the Nazi's party's members. They tried to stand up against the war with Russia and did not support the Lebensraum policy. The only one that supported Hitler was Hermann Goering.

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Hitler had expansionist policies, which were in contrast with the army's will. He wanted to get control over Germans in other countries. He declared that these countries were in crisis so that he could have an excuse to invade them and "free" them.

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Majority of army was against Hitler, because they were all aristocrats from other countries that Hitler wanted to invade. Werner von Fritsch and Werner von Blomberg were both killed, because they were part of the army's heads, who wanted Hitler dead.

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Hans Scholl was the head of the White Rose Group. There were also other groups opposing Hitler, but they were shut down by the SS and propaganda. There were many acts of defiance against Hitler. They would do things decleared illegal.

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Ernst Rohm was killed and majority of SA was also killed. Himmler and Goering supported the Führer.

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Hitler wanted Ernst Rohm dead, because he was head of SA -- used Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Goering (Heads of SS)

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Persecution of Jews increased from 1935, banned marriages between Jews and Germans, deprived of German citizenship. They were no longer awarded public contracts; all Jewish property valued over 5000 marks had to be registered and not sold.

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Nazi's persecuted gypsies because of their alleged inferior racial character. 1935 banned marriages between Aryans and non-aryans. 1940, gypsies were deported to Poland to work camps, then December 1942, sent to Auschwitz and subjected to medical experiment, half of them were murdered.

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Hitler ordered that children with severe mental or physical illness be killed from the age of 3-16. By 1945, 5000 children had been murdered by injection or deliberate starvation all thanks to the first set of parents who asked Hitler for permission to murder their mentally ill child.

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Work Shy Reich Programme. Those arrested were sent to the Buchenwald. 10,000 tramps incarcerated during third Reich and few survived.

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In July 1933, those suffering from hereditary illness, such as schizophrenia and chronic alcoholism were sterilized under the law (around 350,000 people, from 1934-145). People who had been sterilized were forbidden to marry fertile partners.

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In 1933, Asocial were sent to concentration camps and made to wear various color triangle, also known as the badge of shame.

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He was rebelling against Nazi oppression of Catholic churches + smuggled Anti-Nazi writing into German churches

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Nazi Regime created their own Christian church + began taking rights away from other Catholics + Protestants

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Movement by Nazi Regime to get people to leave Catholic Church + to join Nazi pagan religion + reject Christian ethics

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Agreement between Nazi Regime + Catholic Church to support one another. Nazi regime quickly went back on their promise.

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Nazi regime forbid traditional Christian thoughts and tried to enforce their Nazi propaganda. Failed overall. Church attendance continued to rise during Nazi regime.

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Useful tool

Propaganda

“Shared experience” -- binds community together

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Mass-produced radio

70% of people in Germany had it by 1939

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Modernists paintings, for example, were removed from art galleries. Only art that was declared "suitable" for masses by the Kulturkammer were submitted.

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Minister of propaganda + popular enlightenment (1933). He was responsible for censorship of all art forms. IN 1933, he started the burning of the books. They destroyed books w/ Jews, Bolsheviks, and black people. Also books that were declared "decadent" or "Un-German".

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Media perceived to reinforce Germans' shared statehood and race.