The Gestapo By Adolf Hitler

As well as allowing the Nazi leadership to work 'outside the law' the Gestapo, together with the SS worked legally to enforce Hitler's will. Opponents of the Nazi government were placed in 'protective custody' to stop them becoming involved in plots to attack the regime. This meant internment in concentration camps, the first of which was opened at Dachau in Munich in March of 1933. The Gestapo also tapped telephones, intercepted mail and spied

The second section of Beverly Chalmers book, Birth, Sex and Abuse, deals with sexuality among Germans and sexual abuse among Jewish women. Chalmers provides interesting information on how the Nazi’s banned homosexuality, birth control, and feminist organizations (Ibid 145). Chalmers outlines that the goals of the Nazi party by repressing sexuality like homosexuals and feminist movements was to promote pronatalist policies like reproduction so women could bear more children for the superior Aryan race. Chalmers’ extensive study of brothels in concentration camps interested me because I did not realize the SS allowed prostitution inside concentration camps and the majority of these women were Germans because Jewish women were not allowed to be prostitutes due to the Rassenschande laws. Chalmers’ study of German women in brothels broadens the traditional study of the Holocaust because rather than always focusing on non-German women’s experiences it allows people that study the Holocaust to examine how German women were affected by the Holocaust in

The SS and Gestapo (secret police) acting under the orders of Himmler, made terror a regular occurrence and a matter of state policy. Any sort of opponents were beaten and regularly thrown

In 1933, when Adolf Hitler rose to power he set out to have world domination and to have the whole world fall under his control. He thought that he would be creating the Third Reich that would last a thousand years. And on September 1, 1939 he invaded Poland and was about to conquer the rest of Europe and have them fall to his feet and he made sure Germans had enough living space and make sure that the entire German race was taken care of. But Hitler couldn 't do it alone, he needed the help of the SS and Gestapo. Which had more power than modern military forces.

The citizens could be arrested before the do anything on suspicion by any of these police forces. The suspicion were written on a list ‘‘Enemies of State’’ only the Gestapo had the list. Those convicted had three minutes to pack before they are sent to the nearest cell. There the were forced to sign the ‘‘Order of Protective Custody’’ which means that you agree to being forcefully taken.

The Gestapo was created to help solidify Nazi control by identifying and arresting people with anti-nazi thoughts in Germany. The agency was restructured several times during its twelve year history and was very important in helping the Nazi deportation and destruction of Europes jews during the Holocaust

Almost six million Jews and over 220,000 gypsies were murdered in gas chambers and furnaces, as well as from extreme fatigue, malnourishment, and illnesses. Nazis believed that Jews were the cause of all of Germany’s problems and, therefore, should be eradicated. Gypsies were seen as outcasts, with no place to fit in. Hitler ordered them to be exiled for having their own vernaculars and traditions. Homosexuals, primarily men, were also persecuted for their ways of life. Around 15,000 homosexuals were imprisoned in camps, and an estimated 10,000 were murdered. Unfortunately, Nazis were not the only ones guilty of killing homosexuals; fellow inmates of

Not many historical works have achieved more success and have generated more heated debate than Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners. Goldhagen’s thesis relies on the idea that since medieval times, a specific kind of eliminationist anti-Semitism had developed in Germany. According to Goldhagen, the German population was already open to the idea of eliminating the Jews. He also claims that when Hitler came to Power in 1933, rather than slowly convincing the Germans to commit mass murder, he merely gave them the opportunity to do what they have wanted to do for years. Goldhagen also inflated the number of people involved, suggesting that hundreds of thousands were participating in the killing and that millions more would have willingly joined in, given the opportunity. Despite the rejection of the book by many German and non-German historians, the German version of the book, published in August 1996, sold very well. Eighty thousand copies of the German edition sold in the first month of the book’s release. By the time of Goldhagen's tour in September, three thousand copies were being sold every single day. Facts like these show how important communication is with the public. Hitler’s Willing Executioners was successful in Germany because of the accessibility of the book to the German population, the social context in which the book was produced, and the powerful marketing campaign that preceded the book itself.

From the beginning its’ creation, Nazi ideology was centered on the purification of the ‘Aryan race.’ The Nordic peoples of Germany needed to not only be free from Jews and the Slavs of Eastern Europe, but proclaimed a need to refine the blood of Germany that had been diluted over the years by these groups. In the Law for the Protection of German

Homosexual men were sent to work camps and persecuted by the Nazis. Homosexual men, if caught, would either be sent to prison or work camps. One man, Friedrich Paul, was arrested in Luebeck and sent to a camp. “I was imprisoned for 10 months… in 1938 I was re-arrested, humiliated, and tortured.” (Paul).

The Jews were not the only people persecuted and exterminated by Hitler and his regime... (Resnick p. 11) Gypsies, homo-sexuals, cripples, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholic priests, the terminally ill, and Communists would all fall victims to the hatred and brutality of the Nazis. However, the attributes that made them worthy for elimination, according to Hitler, were all

During the Holocaust, the persecution of homosexuals were ignored, but they had not only been persecuted by German Soldiers. There were also reports of most people from the gay community were beaten to death. German soldiers had made some of the people from the gay community wear a pink triangle, and used them for target practice. Female homosexuality was not technically a crime, and thus gay women were not treated as poorly as gay men. Still, there are reports of gay women being imprisoned for their sexuality. Most would have been imprisoned for other reasons, i.e. “antisocial” behavior.

The Nazis had taken control of the whole state. They had become the most dominant political force in almost every way of German Life. This meant that the Nazi did as they pleased. As second in command Himmler oversaw the mass murder of Jews. He organised the slaughter of millions of Jews in extermination camps in Poland. “After fainting at the sight of 100 Jews being shot on the eastern front he ordered a "more humane means" of execution the use of poison gas in specially constructed chambers disguised as shower rooms.” In 1933 Himmler became the head of the Munich police. From this position he organized the first concentration camp at Dachau and began to organize the Nazi political police throughout Germany known as the Gestapo. In the years after the Nazis seized power , Himmler built an position by taking control of the German police forces. On March 9, 1933, he was appointed president of police in Munich. he. By late 1934, Himmler had obtained command of each of the state political police departments in Germany, and had made them within a single new agency the Secret State Police (Gestapo). Himmler also had other enforcement positions in the Nazi party. He had such positions as the S.S. It served as Hitler’s secret personal bodyguards, and later became one of the most powerful and feared organizations in all of Nazi Germany. Heinrich Himmler, became head of the SS and expanded the group’s role and size. By the start of World War II , the SS had more than 250,000 members and divisions, they were engaged in activities ranging from intelligence operations to running Nazi concentration camps. The SS was deemed a criminal organization for its direct involvement in war

During the height of the Second World War, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and other minorities, so called “racial enemies” of the Reich, were systematically targeted and marked for destruction by Nazi Policy. Homosexuals in particular were targeted beginning as early as 1933, and one of the survivors of that policy is Teofil “Stefan” Kosinski, a devout Polish Catholic arrested in 1942 for homosexuality after his letters to his lover on the Eastern Front were discovered by the Gestapo. Of the close to 60,000 interviews in the USC Shoah Foundations’ database, his is one of six homosexual survivors, and the only one in the English language. Kosinski spent several years in various jails, and though he was never sent to a concentration camp, as Nazi policy particularly honed in on him for his sexuality as a moral ill that threatened society. His being targeted for his sexuality presents a special window into the small pool of gay men persecuted under the Nazi regime during the Second World War, and of life in prison camps.

The end of World War II Do you want to know why World War II started? That’s awesome just keep reading because we are going to tell you what really happened according to research. Hitler began writing the book “Mein Kampf”, my struggle, while he was in jail for being revolutionary and trying to start the Nazi party. Writing the book, he wrote showing ideas with hatred against Jews, showing what he thought about the Aryan race. After taking power over Germany, there was this one night called “Kristallnacht”, nigh of broken glass, which was an anti-Jewish act, which took place on November 9th- 10th in the year 1938. This started a wave of violence against Jews and took place mostly in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. The Nazis invaded synagogues,