Hitler comes to power
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- Created on: 24-05-13 15:57
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- Hitler comes to power
- Hitler changed law to keep control
- Nazis won 288 seats no majority - communists won
- Using SA and ** H intimidated Reichstag into passing Enabling Act which allowed him to make laws without consulting the Reichstag
- Hitler declared Communist party illegal
- Gave him enough support in Parliament to bring in Enabling Bill
- Bill let him govern for 4 years without Parliament and made all other parties illegal, almost in full control
- Night of the Long Knives
- H had opposition, worried about rivals within Nazi party
- Biggest threat - Ernst Rohm controlled SA (over 400000 men)
- June: H sent own men to arrest Rohm and others
- Loads killed including Rohm, Strasser and von Schleicher
- Month later Hindenburg died. H made himself Commander-in-chief of army and was called Der Fruhrer - beginning of dictatorship
- Brought back conscription
- Germany under strong leaders
- Reorganised into number of provinces, each province called a Gaue (aloyal Nazi)
- Above them Reichsleiters who advised Hitler e.g, Goebbels propaganda and Himmler chief of German police
- At top Fruhrer - Hitler
- Hitler changed law to keep control
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