1. The Nazi regime in Germany from 1933 to 1945 utilized extensive propaganda and terror tactics to suppress opposition and advance its racist ideology. 2. The SS and Gestapo secret police were used to eliminate political enemies, operate concentration camps, and suppress dissent. 3. Jews and other minority groups faced escalating persecution through laws stripping them of rights, business restrictions, ghettoization, and eventually mass murder in death camps like Auschwitz during the Holocaust.