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Created on: 12-04-13 17:04

when was the reichstag fire?

feb 1933

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who did hitler say started the reichstag fire?

marianus van der lubbe

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what party was van der lubbe from?

communist

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what law did hitler use the reichstag fire to persuade hindenburg to pass?

the law for the protection of people and state

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what did the law for the protection of people and state do?

banned socialists and communists from taking part in the election campaign.

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what was the result of the law for the protection of people and state being introduced?

the nazis won just under half the vote, enough to persuade the reichstag to agree to an enabling law

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when was the enabling act passed?

march 1933

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how did the nazis get the reichstag to change the constitution?

there were the SA surrounding the opera house, being threatening, so that people would vote in their favour

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what did the enabling law mean?

that hitler could pass laws without consulting the reichstag

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what did hitler use the enabling law to do?

get rid of everything in his way: closed down trade unions, made other parties illegal, it was a dictatorship

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when was the night of the long knives?

june 1934

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what happened on the night of the long knives?

the ** rounded up the leaders of the SA including erst rohm, 400 people were executed including von schleicher and von kahr, the SA were disbanded but hitler claimed he had disbanded a national revolution

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why did hitler kill Ernst Rohm?

because he was a threat to hitlers position, and the army officials wanted his gotten rid of, rohm was socialist and industrialists threatened to withdraw support if he was not dealt with

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when did hindenburg die?

august 1934

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why did hindenburg die?

old age

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how did hindenburgs death help hitler

hitler became fuhrer, and the army swore an oath of alliegance to him

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