Explain 4 ways in which nazi state established total control over its people
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Terror
The Nazi state was built on terror. The people was supposed to live in fear. Constant fear. To inflict fear the Gestapo punished people by torture and death in an almost random way. Everyone should now that a critical word could be enough to give you a one way ticket to a Concentration Camp or just some torture by the Gestapo and then a fast execution.
Secret police
The secret police, Gestapo, were present everywhere and worked by a large network of informers. Anyone could be an informer and any crime, like just minor doubts, could be enough to make the Gestapo come and get you.
Why would someone turn you in? Maybe because they were Nazi fanatics or maybe just because they disliked you. This made people distrust each other. An angry old man who complains about your family behaviour could be a querulant but if he turn you in? Once the Gestapo has got you in for interrogations you would face torture and death. Maybe the best option was a preemptive strike and turn the old man in. Anonymous of course. No one needs to know. Ops! You are suddenly also an informer.
Totalitarianism
The state expanded to control all aspects of life. All organisations were set under Nazi control. (Only the Catholic Church remained a bit independent). All employers were set under Nazi control. If the Nazi regime wanted to punish you they did not have to send the Gestapo. The state had other methods. Actually the state had an almost indefinite number of ways to harass people they did not like
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The Nazi state established total control over its people by the following ways.
1) The Enabling Act of 1933 established dictatorship in Germany. all trade unions and political parties were banned except the Nazi party.
2) The state established total control over the economy, media, army and judiciary.
3) Special surveillance and security forces created to control society in cable technologies wanted.