3A.+Structure+of+gov't+and+administration+-+Profiles

 Hitler single party state (1933-45) Domestic policies and impact  3A - Structure of government and administration

__ **IMPORTANT FIGURES** __ The information below is taken from various web sources, with links to the sources in which the information was taken. Check out [|http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk]. **It's amazing.**

__**Hitler**__ By 1921 Hitler surpassed Anton Drexler as leader of the NSDAP/Nazi Party. His skill as an orator is thought to be a primary reason for his success and rise to prominence. His rise to power was through violent means, most notably the [|Beer Hall Putsch]. As leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler liked to let the leaders of the ministries fight in order to get their ideas followed through in a sort of Darwinian battle. The emergence of the Hitler Myth leads us to question how much responsibility Hitler had in the government.

**Reich Ministry for Propoganda and Public Enlightenment** Dr. Joseph Goebbels (1933-1945) Around 1930 he was appointed Propoganda Leader. In 1933 he was appointed Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. He had an important role in building up hatred for the Allies. The irony of Goebbel's situation is that he suffered from malformations, whilst all the while perpetuating ideology about the ideal Aryan man. (see cartoon below)  ** H. Dobhenysk, A Pure-Blooded Aryan, //Chicago Daily News// (1937) **

**Reich Educational Ministry** [|Bernhard Rust] (1934-1945) Rust was asked to change the education system so that resistance to fascist ideas was suppressed. In this way children would be taught Nazi ideology. Rust also was charged with eliminated opposition in the form of teachers.

**Hitler Youth and Association of German Girls** [|Baldur von Schirach] (1932-1945) Created an independent youth movement. Schirach made several important changes to the way that the youth movement was organized. For example, in 1936 it would now be mandatory for boys 15 to 18 to join [|Hitler Youth]. At the same time all other youth organizations were banned. [|Gertrude Scholtz-Klink] Head of the Nazi Women's League. Main task was to promote male superiority and the importance of child-bearing. She was the head of the [|Association of German Girls].

**Gestapo** (1933-1936) ||= Heinrich Himmler (1936-1939) ||= Heinrich Meuller (1939-1945) || Hermann Goering arranged the Night of the Long Knives. In 1938 he became head of the German armed forces. Credited for the quick defeat of France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg in 1940 but blamed for British evacuation of Dunkirk. [|Reinhard Heydrich] In 1936 became head of the SD and the Gestapo. Heydrich and the SD convinced Stalin that the leadership of the Red Army was planning a coup in the Soviet Union, and this resulted in a Great Purge of the Soviet Military. In 1941 he was assasinated...
 * = Hermann Goering
 * = [[image:http://www.breakingperceptions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Hermann-Goering.jpg align="center" link="http://www.breakingperceptions.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Hermann-Goering.jpg"]] ||= [[image:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/55622827.jpg width="200" height="280" align="center" link="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/55622827.jpg"]] ||= [[image:http://www.excatholicsforchrist.com/images/muller.jpg width="262" height="286" align="center"]] ||

**[|SS]** [|Heinrich Himmler] (1929-1945) When Himmler was appointed leader of the SS, there were only 280 members. Himmler expanded the size of the SS and personally screened all applicants. By 1933 the SS had grown to 52,000 members.  He helped organize the Night of the Long Knives. Due to this purge the SS was stronger than ever. During WWII the SS Death's Head Units were put in charge of concentration camps where they murdered minorities. In 1944 Himmler was in charge of the German Army.  **[|Victor Weisz], **//[|News Chronicle]// (1945) [|Adolf Eichmann]In Sept. 1934 Eichmann was made the Nazi authority of Jewish affairs. Then he became head of the SS office for Jewish Emigration, and then chief of the Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration. In 1939 he ordered the deportation of Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia to Poland. Part of the committee that introduced The Final Solution, and then was placed in charge of the operation.
 * [|David Low], //Who's for it this time?// (28th April, 1942) **

**German Labor Front** Dr.[| Robert Ley] (1933-1945) Replaced Gregor Strasser as leader of the Reich Organization. Formed the [|German Labor Front] to replace outlawed trade unions. This lead to the pay freeze.

**Reich Justice Ministry** Franz Gurtner (1933-1941) ironically, hard to find information on... Otto George Thierack

**Chief of People's Court** George Thierack [|Roland Freisler] (1889 - 1946) (1893 - 1945) Freisler was appointed chief personnel officer in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. the next year he became state secretary and then the federal Ministry of Justice. Freisler was at the Wannsee Conference in which the decision to exterminate Jews systematically in concentration camps was made. This was then called The Final Solution.

**Sturm Abteilung/SA** Ernst Roehm (1924-1943) Took over the SA when Roehm was murdered. Generally considered a weak man, the strength of the SA faded when he took office. Died in 1943. Viktor Lutze (1934-1943)

**Reich Interior Ministry** [|Wilhelm Frick] Minister of the Interior who was responsible for operating the Enabling Act, which gave Hitler dictatorial powers. He also drafted the Nuremberg Laws.
 * =Wilhelm Frick(1933-1943)= || =Heinrich Himmler(1943-1945)= ||
 * [[image:http://www.bjornetjenesten.dk/teksterdk/Nurnbergprocessen/Jodl.jpg width="225" height="360"]] || [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R99621,_Heinrich_Himmler.jpg/200px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R99621,_Heinrich_Himmler.jpg width="250" height="361"]] ||

**Reich Chancellery/Nazi Party Chancellery** Rudolf Hess Head of the Central Political Committee and deputy leader of the party and minister without portfolio. There is evidence which suggests he may have played a part in secret negotiations with the British government. Martin Bormann In 1942 was Hitler's secretary and then given the post of deputy fuehrer. Bormann controlled all of the paper's that Hitler saw and therefore had an influence on government policy. Sometimes blocked Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, and Speer from seeing Hitler.
 * =Hans Heinrich Lammers (1933-1945)= || =[|Rudolf Hess](1933-1941)= || =[|Martin Bormann] (1941-1945)= ||
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**Other** [|Albert Speer] In 1942 was appointed Minister of Armaments. Speer considerably raised production levels of armaments. Home