Hitler's consolidation of power

Reichstag Fire

 Enabling act

Emergency decrees

Bans

Night of the long Knives

Hindenburg's death

Army's oath

Reichstag fire

• Feb 1933
• Used to tell Germany of the communist threat (Van der Lubbe)
• used this to convince Hindenburg to pass the emergency decrees

Emergency decrees

• Allowed Hitler to take political action against the communists
• 1,000's of Communists put into concentration camps
• Communist party wrecked

General election

• March 1933
• Communists locked up, Hitler hoped to win a majority of the votes
• 44% of Germans voted for the Nazis
• The Nazis joined with the Nationalist DNVP to…