History GCSE
Institutional control
What Institutional control means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Institutional control
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
All judges were compelled to join the National Socialist League for the Maintenance of the Law, and those with conflicting political views were dismissed.
Topics that use Institutional control
- Option 31: Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39 - 2 The police state (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Concentration camps
- Dictatorship and authoritarianism
- Political repression
- The Gestapo
- The police state
- The SS
- Subversion of justice
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