Hitler's consolidation of power
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- Hitler's consolidation of power
- Key Dates
- Jan 30th 1933 - Chancellor Hitler
- Jan 31st 1933 - Hitler makes an appeal to German people - blamed democracy for poor economy
- Feb 20th 1933 - Hitler promised 3mil Reichmark by industrialists - big endorsement
- Feb 27th - Reichstag Fire
- March 21st 1933 - celebrate opening of First Reichstag of Imperial Germany
- Malicious Practices Law - banned criticism of regime
- Impact of the Reichstag Fire
- Blamed on Communists - Reich given emergency powers - Communist party outlawed
- Feb 28th - Decree for the Protection of People and State (Reichstag Fire Decree)
- Hitler convinced Hindenburg to sign it off
- Allowed: ending of press freedom, the right of Assembly, imprisonment w/out trial ('Protective Custody') - used to ban and arrest communists
- Atmosphere of fear - elections held a week later - widespread campaign of violence/contempt against Communists
- March 1933 Elections
- Nazis: 288 in Reichstag (a. 44:) - not a majority - need to get 2/3 of seats to change a constitution
- CP and SPD held firm
- Only with help of nationalist ZP (had 52 seats), that Hitler was able to get a majority
- High turnout - 88% - perhaps showing impact of intimidation
- KPD gained 4.8mil votes but were banned from Reichstag
- Nazis: 288 in Reichstag (a. 44:) - not a majority - need to get 2/3 of seats to change a constitution
- The Enabling Act
- 23rd March 1933 - Enabling Act - key establishment of power
- SPD only ones who opposed it (444 vs 94 votes) - Hitler made speech promising Catholic rights etc
- ZP were naïve and thought they could influence Hitler
- Communists banned entry and SA/** troops surrounded building and intimidates deputies during discussion of Act
- SPD only ones who opposed it (444 vs 94 votes) - Hitler made speech promising Catholic rights etc
- 4 years - pass laws w/out need to consult Reichstag
- Power to pass laws went to the cabinet (Hitler's chosen ministers)
- Laws could deviate from the Constitution and could come into affect day after publication - essentially a dictatorship
- Enabling Act remained the constitutional basis of Hitler's dictatorship
- Hitler went on to carry out a revolution with authority of state on his side
- May - TU merged into the German Labour Front
- May - suppression/'voluntary' dissolution of other political parties
- Jan 1934 - series of decrees - for Reconstruction of Reich - abolished Land (State) - shifted sovereign power of Lander to Reich
- May - suppression/'voluntary' dissolution of other political parties
- May - TU merged into the German Labour Front
- 23rd March 1933 - Enabling Act - key establishment of power
- Key Dates
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