Consolidation of power
This is a mindmap containing a review of Hitler's consolidation to power
- Created by: chelsea henson
- Created on: 04-03-14 17:27
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- Consolidation of Power
- CONTEXT
- economic issues
- political differences with the Kaiser
- WW1- Treaty of Versailles (land, army reparations and war guilt clause)
- The Weimar Republic
- Germany is in such a fragile state that Hitler is appealing as he could fix the problems they are faced with
- Hitler's appeal
- WHY HITLER ROSE POWER
- Goebbels' propaganda campaign was effective
- The nazi storm troopers attacked opponents
- People were angry about treaty of versaille and Hitler promised to overturn it
- the depression of 1929
- Industrialists gave Hitler money and power
- other political parties wouldn't work together
- Hindenburg and Papen thought Hitler wouldn't achieve anything
- He was a good speaker
- NAZI IDEOLOGY IN 1933
- The power of the will
- Struggle, violence and war
- Social darwinism and the master race
- Anti-democracy and belief in dictatorship
- A national socialism
- Aggressive nationalism
- People's community
- STEREOTYPES
- Positive
- German workers
- German farmers
- Women
- Racially pure Aryans
- Negative
- Jews and communists
- Gypsies
- Homosexuals
- Intellectuals and Pacidists
- Vagrants, prostitutes, work shy, physically and mentally unfit and feminist
- Positive
- COMING TO POWER AND CONSOLIDATION
- By 1934 all had changed, Hitler was dictator
- Parties controlled most states
- Army was loyal to Hindenburg
- When Hitler was appointed Chancellor he wasn't the dictator
- The Weimar constitution was in force
- CHRONOLOGY OF CONSOLIDATION- 1933
- 1st Feb: Reichstag dissolved
- 27th Feb: Reichstag fire
- 28th Feb: Decree for the Protection of people and state
- 5th March: General elections
- 8th March: the first concentration camp (work)
- 24th March: Enabling Act
- 7th April: Law for Restoration of a professional civil service
- 2nd May: Trade unions abolished
- 10th June: Employment Law
- 14th July: All political parties banned
- 20th July: Concordat
- 30th Nov: Gestapo set up
- TERROR- ROLE OF SA
- Main instrument of terror
- /merged with police force
- Forced people to comply with legal issues
- Connected to the Reichstag
- Hitler didn't agree with what they always did
- They were killed in the night of the long knives
- COMPROMISE
- The army
- Big buisness
- Civil service
- Chruch (concordat)
- Hitler needed these groups to consolidate power so he needed to leave them alone to achieve power
- 1934
- 2nd Aug: Hindenburg dies an the army swear allegiance to Hitler
- 30th June:night of the long knives
- 19th Aug: Hitler becomes Reich chancellor with the title Fuhrer
- 30th Jan: LAw for the Reconstruction of the Reich
- LEGAL POWER
- The Decree for the protection of the people and the state
- It suspended important civil and political and civil rights
- Police gained extra power
- Government could censor publications
- It got rid of communism
- Enabling act/ lae for removing the distress of the people an the Reich
- It gave power to issue decrees without government acceptance
- The Decree for the protection of the people and the state
- POLICIES
- The law for the protection of retail trade
- The law to reduce unemployment
- The Reich Entailed Farm Law
- PROPAGANDA
- Press, Radio broadcasting
- these were taken over
- CONTEXT
- Nazi's didn't have an overall majority
- COMING TO POWER AND CONSOLIDATION
- By 1934 all had changed, Hitler was dictator
- Parties controlled most states
- Army was loyal to Hindenburg
- When Hitler was appointed Chancellor he wasn't the dictator
- The Weimar constitution was in force
- COMING TO POWER AND CONSOLIDATION
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