How is the experience of German citizens after the First World War related to Nazi propaganda that labeled disabled as “useless eaters”? 1. German citizens wanted to believe that the Nazi regime could advance science enough to cure the disabled among them.

2. Germans had always felt it their Christian duty to care for those who were disabled, so this propaganda enraged them.

3. The Nazis tried to blame those who were disabled for the starvation that had gripped Germany after the war.

4.The Nazis took advantage of people’s fear of starvation by saying that disabled took food but did not contribute.

 Hitler was a dictator with absolute power. In order to maintain this power he needed organisations that could control the population to ensure absolute loyalty to the Führer. After the demise of the SA on the Night of the Long Knives, there were three main interlinked organisations (in addition to the regular German police force) involved in controlling the German people through spying, intimidation and if necessary imprisonment:The Nazis quickly swept away many of the freedoms that Germans had enjoyed under the Weimar constitution. The party’s control of the legal system made opposition to the regime very difficult indeed:

Judges had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler and were expected to act always in the interests of the Nazi state.

All lawyers had to join the Nazi Lawyers' Association, which meant they could be controlled.

The role of defence lawyers in criminal trials was weakened.

Standard punishment for crimes were abolished and so local prosecutors could decide what penalties to impose on those found guilty.

These changes more than halved the number of criminal offences between 1933 and 1939, whilst the number of crimes that carried the death penalty increased from three to 46. Many convicted criminals were not released at the end of their sentences but instead were moved to the growing number of concentration camps being established by the SS.

Explanation:

a)the court decides which cases it will hear