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GCSE History · key term
A state in which the government uses police powers, surveillance and repression to control people and suppress opposition, without effective legal protection against these actions.
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Paper 1
A state in which police and security organisations exercise extensive powers to monitor, intimidate and punish people, without effective protection of individual rights.
Revise: Control and OppositionA police state gives security organisations extensive power to monitor and punish people without effective safeguards for individual rights.
Paper 3
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Germany became a police state: police powers served the regime, while individuals lost effective protection against arbitrary searches, arrest and imprisonment.
Paper 1
A state in which the government uses police powers, surveillance and punishment to suppress opposition rather than protect citizens’ freedoms.
Revise: Control and Conformity: Terror, Propaganda and OppositionA police state uses surveillance, arrest and punishment to suppress opposition. Nazi Germany had several overlapping organisations carrying out this work, rather than a single all-purpose police force.