Hitler Consolidates his Position
- Created by: Jo-Robertson
- Created on: 22-12-17 17:11
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- How did Hitler become Chancellor?
- July 1932
- After the Reichstag elections July 1932
- Nazis single largest party (230 seats) but not majority
- Hitler demanded to be Chancellor
- Hindenburg suspicious and said no
- Papen to carry on
- In trouble though with little support from Reichstag
- Another election called as a consequence
- In trouble though with little support from Reichstag
- Used special powers to pass measures Papen hoped for
- Papen to carry on
- Hindenburg suspicious and said no
- After the Reichstag elections July 1932
- November 1932
- After election largest party again
- Their share of vote fell
- Hitler declared this election a disaster
- Lost more than 2 million votes & 38 seats in the Reichstag
- Nazi party starting to run out of funds
- Hitler said to have threatened suicide
- After election largest party again
- December 1932
- Hindenburg
- Again refused to make him Chancellor
- Weimar system not working
- Left Hindenburg (84) to run country using emergency powers
- Supported by rich industrialists & army leaders
- Not the democratic way they were suggested to be leading
- Needed a leader that supported the Reichstag
- Left Hindenburg (84) to run country using emergency powers
- Hindenburg
- January 1933
- Hindenburg & Papen met secretly with industrialists, army leaders and politicians
- 30th January offered Hitler post of Chancellor
- People shocked
- Felt they could limit Hitlers influence and resist his extremist demands
- Wanted policies to go through the Reichstag
- Deal made behind the scenes with aristocrats
- Using SA & ** intimidated Reichstag to pass Enabling Act
- Enabled him to make rules without consulting Reichstag
- Nazi strengths
- Hitlers speaking skills
- Propoganda campaigns
- Criticisms of Weimar government
- Nazi policies
- Support from big business
- Violent treatment of opponents
- Opponents Weakneses
- Failure to deal with depression
- Failure to cooperate with one another
- Attitudes of Germans to the democratic parties
- Reichstag Fire
- 27th February 1933
- Reichstag building burnt down
- Hitler blamed communists and a communist uprising
- Wanted special powers to save issues, was granted them
- Arrested communists, broke up meetings and frightened voters
- Wanted special powers to save issues, was granted them
- Hitler blamed communists and a communist uprising
- Reichstag building burnt down
- 27th February 1933
- Hitler
- People didn't think he would hold power for long
- 1934 supreme dictator of Germany
- Called election in March 1933 to get overall Nazi majority
- Used same methods as other elections but now greater resources with control over state media
- July 1932
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