Consolidation of power

• Reichstag Fire 1933
• Election Campaign for March Election 1933
• Enabling Act March 1933
• Civil Service
• TU's/Workers
• State Governments
• Political parties
• Terror as a tool
• Use of propaganda/public opinion
• Relations with the church 1933-34 - Concordat
• Night of the Long Knives - massacre + impact, SA reduced to propaganda
• Legislation of murder
• Popular support
• Army support
• New post-fuher leader

+ Enabling Act 1933
+Civil Service
+State governments
+Political parties
+Legislation of murder
+New post-fuhrer leader
- Terror as a tool
- Election campain March 1933
- TU's/Workers
- NOTLK

• ** got rid of
• New militia - Rohm trying to take over army
• SA emphasised left-wing aspects Nazis and Cons elites/ Hitler threatened
• Support for Army - foreign expansion
• Succession to Hindenburg
• Street fighting force - becoming too powerful + needed to be tamed
• Never challenge discipline + professional expertise of Army
• Hitler called a meeting between leaders that didn't agree, tension did not ease
• Von Papen (vice-Chancellor) made speech calling end to SA + criticised policy of co-ordination. Hitler realised needed to satisfy Conservative Elites and had to destroy SA immediately. Influential figures in Nazi party like Himmler and Goring helped organise the purge

• Hindenburg's death - fuhrer
• Nazi regime stabilised and threat of SA removed
• German Army supported regime w/ elimination of SA + swore oath of loyalty to Hilter
• SA reduced to propaganda
• ** more powerful. German generals feared SA but failed to recognise power ** had as party's main institution of terror
• Hitler himself secured own political supremacy so Nazi regime could not be easily challenged

• Allowed Hitler to intro decrees for 4 years w/out reference to Reichstag
• Allowed full control of law establishing legal dictatorship and legal foundation w/ more respect for civil service and Cons Elites who bought into power
• Allowed Hitler to make agreements w/ foreign states effectively ending G democracy. Laid basis for intro series legislation incl. removal political parties and state gvts
• Act was passed in climate of fear in Reichstag w/ ** and SA officers intimidating those present in building
• As a law effectively rubber stamp for Hitler's power
• After intro cabinet met less frequently and allowed Hitler to intro laws banning political parties, TU's and state gvts

• National Community
• Hitler always claimed National Socialism more than just political ideology - movement that aimed to transform G society - rejecting values of socialism, liberalism and Christianity
• Notion all 'racially pure Germans lived together in one national community'
• Meant to cut across divisions of class, region and religion. Concept it was least popular w/ the workers + only supported by committed Nazis
• Typified by 'blood and soil' ideology w/ peasants and working the land
• Part of community, women's place was in home + role as child bearers was emphasised
• Young people to be members of Hitler Youth
• All Germans had to be loyal to Hitler and Nazi state

• ** ruthless organisation that was responsible for NOTLK - weakening SA leadership emerged as polices arm of Nazi Party
• Himmler wished to execute Hitler's vision of totalitarian state whereby gvt would have full control over population + terror which would be used by those opposed the Nazi gvt
• Hitler needed organisation which would not be restrained by legal/bureaucratic qualms
• ** represented racial elite + controlling police meant able to monitor + survey population. ** ran concentration camps. ** concentration camps deliberatley brutalised to remove feelings of humanity towards prisoners
• Used murder, torture and arbitrary arrest to ensure enemies of state e.g. Communists/Socialists dealt with
• ** held up elite force w/in Nazi Party + its members held as role models for racially based 'people's community'
• Under ** control police system was an instrument of Fuhrer and Nazi Party

+ 1 political party and 1 leader controlling everything
+ TU's replaced by GLF - removal political parties and state governments
+ Police bought under control, SA/**/Gestapo. Acted against opponents. Arbitrary arrest, torture, murder, imprisonment key
+ Decree for the Protection of the People legalised
+ Opposition w/in party itself removed - NOTLK, Fuhrer following Hindenburg's death, control of army
+ Hitler Myth - propaganda
+ Hitler defended G from enemies like Communists
+ Press under control by 34 editors made responsible for content of papers
- Army could still potentially overthrow Hitler
- Cautious path with churches

+ Terror and repression - opponents, SA, **, SD, NOTLK, Gestapo, powers of torture etc. Special courts set up for enemies
- Gestapo - efficient but ltd in no's and info based on gossip created lots of paperwork
- Hitler Myth
- Workers/Economy - Creation of jobs, STJ/ drive economic self-sufficiency in prep for war 
- Propaganda helped people with hardships when prepping for war + in war
- Churches - some same ideologies
- Army gave oath of loyalty
- Youth - Hitler Youth underpriviliged
- Women - biggest supporters regime
- Peasantry - 'blood and soil' ideology
- Industrialists + businessmen - generally loyal out of self-interest as TU's crushed
- Preparation for war - German's did not protest but still not patriotic frenzy had been in 1914