As Hitler and the Nazi party claimed control of Germany as a dictatorship, they prominently used terror as a method to control the German public from forming opposition and to repress any negative opinions against Nazi policies; to do this, they used a range of methods such as the establishment of the Gestapo to cause terror through insecurity in everyday life for the German public, departmentalization of the SS to gain control of the previously used concentration camps that would be used as a form of torture to repress those deemed enemies of the Nazi party and taking total control of the courts by placing Nazi officials into positions of power so that even if an enemy of the Nazi party was given a trial, they would still be punished. In 1933 Hermann Goring founded the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, with intentions to oppress the German people through the threat of the ability to provide punishments to anyone that opposed them without a trial. The Gestapo would also use informers to uncover any attempts of organised opposition; this would cause terror in the German public as it caused insecurity in their lives. This would be useful as it would cause the repression of anti-Nazi opinions as they …show more content…
This would create fear as it made it possible for those deemed to be enemies of the Nazis to be punished even if they were given a show trial. This would create an image for the public of the total control that Nazis had that even the justice system had been corrupted and taken in their control. Moreover, show trials would be used in which a Nazi official would have pre-determined the result of the trial based on their own beliefs, allowing for a higher rate of punishment for anyone that would be thought of to oppose the