Hitler's "National Community"

The Night of Long Knives 1934:

• The SA wanted to merge with the smaller German army
• Hitler feared the merge would undermine the effectiveness of the army
• The SA leaders were the more 'left wing' Nazi members
• Hitler ordered the murder of 50+ of the SA's top leaders

Propaganda and Popular Culture:

• Posters to promote a sense of unity
• Political rituals
• Winter Aid - better off Germans encouraged to give money, food and clothing to people in poverty
• KdF movement - fill in a gap left in the lives of working-class families by the liquidisation of the social democratic and communist parties

Political Parties:

• 1933 - the SPD was outlawed The other Weimar parties were pressured into dissolving The 'Law against the Formation of New Parties" 
• 1993 was introduced - making Germany a one party state 

Violence and Terror:

• Mid 1933 - 100s of Socialists and Communists were murdered by the SA 
• This lead to the construction of concentration camps - but they weren't built for extermination 

Churches:

• Protestant Church - soft target, many of their middle class members vote for Hitler - they were persuaded to organise themselves into a Reich church with a Reich Bishop 
• Catholic Church - 1933, agreement made with the Nazis and the Vatican Christian Churches - significant opposition