he took advantange of oppotunities like the reichstag fire to gain power‚ also combining of chancellor and predsident. - nazi germany was under the fuhrerprinzip‚ where hitler made the final decisions - he initiated gleichshaltung‚ but others were in charge of individual departments eg goebbels and propaganda ministry - creation of the fuhrer myth led to more supporthe took advantange of oppotunities like the reichstag fire to gain power‚ also combining of chancellor and predsident. - nazi germany
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On the 27th of February 1933‚ the Reichstag building broke out into flames‚ four weeks after Hitler had assumed office of chancellor and weeks before his government had urged President Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag. The Nazis were able to convince the general public that this was “acts of terrorism” by communists. This meant at long last the Nazis could get rid of the KPD and all other political parties‚ whether they posed a threat or not. The Reichstag fire lead to the emergency decree which
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One of the key proponents of Nazi ideology was a promise to birth a new Germany. This promise of national rebirth resonated strongly in the early 1930s‚ when the Weimar Republic was shaken to the core by economic and political crisis. At the centre of the Nazi vision stood the ‘national community’‚ depicted as the polar opposite to the conflict- ridden Weimar society. In a speech witnessed by the nation in January 1932‚ one year before his appointment as German chancellor‚ Adolf Hitler concluded
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at what a dictatorship is and how it operates‚ how the population is brought to a point where they accept a dictatorship‚ and examine and analyze the vital events that took place in Germany which lead to Hitler assuming dictatorial power: the Reichstag fire‚ the Emergency Decree‚ the Enabling Act‚ the banning of trade unions and other political parties‚ the Night Of The Long Knives‚ the death of President Hindenburg‚ and the German army’s oath of loyalty to Hitler. It will be argued that while all
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contributed to their consolidation of power. After the Reichstag fire the police were given the powers to detain suspects indefinitely without reference to the courts. The decree ‘For the protection of the people and the state’ was used to justify the arrest‚ imprisonment and often torture of thousands of political opponents‚ and on 23 March 1933 Hitler presented the Enabling Act to an intimidated Reichstag in order to consolidate Nazi power. The Reichstag passed laws which voted itself out of existence;
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This allowed Hitler to insinuate that the Communist Party was assembling a revolt and was able to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree‚ implemented the day after the fire. This decree rescinded German civil liberties and gave police the authority to detain people for whatever length of time‚ without cause‚ that they deemed necessary. This decree would be the first step that would lead to Hitler’s
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the Reichstaf and President Hindenburg had not supplied him with emergency power. The Reichstag Fire on the 27th February 1933 was an opportunity for Hitler to reach for total power. The accusal and arrest of a Dutch communist who was accused of lighting the fire‚ was advantagous for Hitler and his propaganda message. He was able to develop the idea amongst the German people that the destruction of the Reichstag was a communist coup threat. This created further fear amongst the nation towards communist
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Hitler rise to power 1930-1939 Germany was in an exceedingly unpleasant state after the WW1. The Treaty of Versailles meant the people had to take full blame for the war. Reparations were even harder to pay since Germany was in the midst of one of the worst depression the world has ever seen at the time. Not to mention a brand new government‚ one that had nothing to do with the signing of this treaty‚ had taken over power. All of the people of this once superpower of a country was in a state of
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15 January – About 6 million are unemployed in Germany. 25 February – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization‚ opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. 10 April – Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of Germany. 30 May – Chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government. 14 June – Bans against the SS and SA are overturned. 17 July – Altona Bloody Sunday: In Altona‚ armed communists
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state and his future foreign policy and also relieved the pressures on Hitler. However‚ The Night of the Long Knives was also the continuation of many other events‚ which could be described as equally as important‚ such as the Enabling Act and the Reichstag Fire. Ernst Rohm a professional soldier and once a close friend of Adolf Hitler was a major threat against Hitler’s power and reign. Rohm was a natural rebel who had strong revolutionary views‚ more instinctive than ideological. He once commented
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