The Gestapo (Secret State Police) is the symbol and main instrument of terror in the Third Reich. The Gestapo with particular cruelty persecuted and destroyed all those whom the Nazis considered their opponents: communists and social democrats, Jews and homosexuals, people who dared to doubt the invincibility of German weapons, those who listened to “enemy radio stations” and told political jokes.
Along with the fact that the Jews were classified by the Nazis as a priority “enemy,” the Nazi ideological racial concept aimed at the persecution, imprisonment and extermination of other groups of the population, including Roma, people with mental and physical disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war and Afro-Germans. The Nazis also declared enemies and threats to the security political dissidents, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and so-called asocial personalities because they deliberately opposed the Nazi regime or because some aspects of their behavior did not fit into the Nazi understanding of social norms. Nazi sought to eliminate the dissenters in their own country and the so-called racial threats through constant internal cleansing of German society.
It left Americans with Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA);Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC);Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC);Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA);National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA);Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); andPublic Works Administration (PWA). Also Federal Securities Act;Federal Housing Act; andNational Youth Administration. Aswell as the Glass-Steagall Act;creation of the FDIC and FSLIC;the Wagner Act; andthe Fair Labor Standards Act.
