This map, created by Herbert Froboess and entitled Deutschland 1945, shows some of the camps in Nazi Germany and some of the surrounding occupied countries.

When Adolf Hitler became German Chancellor at the end of January 1933 the Nazis quickly began to build what has often been referred to by historians as a Police-Terror State. The basic components of this involved a police force which had the power of arbitrary arrest; a court system where the judiciary was not independent of the State; an extensive system of concentration camps where individuals could be held indefinitely in ‘protective custody’, and a system which encouraged and widely used denunciations of individuals by their fellow Germans.

As well as allowing KS3 teachers to add greater depth to their lessons on Nazi Germany, this talk will enable teachers to better guide their GCSE and A Level students through exploring issues such as the ways were the lives of the German people affected by the Nazi police state, and how and why the Nazis were able to create a police state in the years 1933–39.

This session is suitable for those studying the following:

KS3 & KS4 History:

• AQA: Germany, 1890 – 1945: Democracy and Dictatorship
• Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939
• OCR (History A): Germany, 1925-1955: The People and The State
• OCR (History B): Living under Nazi Rule, 1933 – 1945

KS5 History:

• AQA: Democracy and Nazism: Germany, 1918 – 1945
• Edexcel: Germany and West Germany, 1918 – 1989
• OCR: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919 – 1963