How did Hitler move from Chancellor to Fuhrer?
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- How did Hitler move from Chancellor to Fuhrer?
- Enabling Act 24 March 1933
- A law giving Hitler the power to make laws in Germany without going through the Reichstag for the next 4 years.
- Laws could go against the constitution.
- Trade Unions
- Trade Unions wee banned and the state took charge of the working class.
- May 2nd 1933, police occupied all union HQs and leaders were arrested.
- Funds which belonged to Trade Unions were confiscated.
- Dealing With Opposing Parties
- Hitler ordered for all political parties, other than the Nazis, to be banned.
- Germany was now a one party state, it destroyed the democracy.
- Hitler could not be got rid of.
- In an election, the Nazis would gain complete control.
- Ensuring Germans knew who was in charge
- Germany was set up into 42 Gaus, run by a Gauleiter.
- Gaus were separated into areas, localities and blocks of flats run by a Blockleiter.
- Hitler set up the Gestapo, the secret police, under the control of Himmler.
- The Night Of the Long Knives 30th June 1934
- 200 senior SA officers were arrested onto their way to Wiesse, Bavaria.
- Rohm was shot by 2 ** men after refusing to commit suicide.
- Concentration Camps were set up for prisoners.
- Hitler made himself Fuhrer 2nd August 1934
- Weeks after the Night of Long Knives, Hindenburg died.
- Hitler declared himself President within hours.
- He was Head of State and Commander of the army.
- Every soldier had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler.
- Enabling Act 24 March 1933
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