Life in Nazi Life in Nazi GermanyGermany

How did the Nazis win over the German people?

Headings for your notesCopy these into your jotters leaving 5 lines below each, for your notes. FULL SENTENCES = Good practice!!

• The ‘carrot and the stick’

• The Leader Principle

• The SS

• The Gestapo

• Concentration camps

Hitlers speech to SA and SS 1933

"SA and SS, Heil! The great time has now begun. Germany is

now awakened. We have won power in Germany. Now we must win over the German people.

I know, my comrades, it must have been difficult at times, when you were desiring change which didn't come, so time and time again the appeal has to be made to continue the struggle - you mustn't act yourself, you must obey, you must give in, you must submit to this overwhelming need to obey."

The ‘Carrot and the Stick’

• The Nazi’s used the Carrot and the stick principle to win over the Nazi people

• Write three lined describing the cartoon. What does the donkey represent?

• What does the stick represent, what does the carrot represent?• Next lesson we will be looking at the benefits of the Nazi state –

the ‘carrot’.

Fűhrerprinzip• Ultimate Authority - Hitler

and filters downwards.

• Hitler had final say in key areas: military operations, domestic policy.

• The ‘will of the Fűhrer’ – people did things because they thought Hitler would want those things to happen.

A stick : The Schutzstaffel (SS)

• Led by Heinrich Himmler.

• By 1933 numbered 52,000.

• Main instrument of internal rule – role in night of Long Knives.

A stick : The Gestapo• Became most feared branch of the SS.

• Big brother

• By 1940 there were 45,000 Gestapo members and 160,000 informers.

• Rounded up opponents to Nazi Rule.

• Reputation as brutal interregators.

• After war Gestapo charged with crimes against humanity at Nuremburg trials.

The ultimate stick

Activities1. Why did the Nazis use a

carrot and stick policy?

2. Think about an organisation you are part of (e.g. club, school, society). Draw a table of carrot and stick methods used to keep things running smoothly.

3. Enquiry Skills Pg.59

Organisation :  

Carrot Methods

Stick Methods