C12, Establishment of Nazi Dictatorship Jan-March 1933 Flashcards
Hitler’s 1st Cabinet: chancellor + vice chancellor
Chancellor = Hitler
V Chancellor = Papen
Hitler’s 1st Cabinet: 2 Nazi Party Ministers
William Frick, interior minister, controlled police
Herman’s Goering, minster without portfolio + Reich aviation minister 1933 responsible for control of rebuild of Luftwaffe
Key term: Minister without Portfolio
- no specific responsibilities
- Free to be involved in servers areas of policy making
Hitler’s 1st Cabinet: Defence Minister
- General Blomberg
Hitler’s 1st Cabinet: Foreign minister
- Freiherr Von Neurath
Hitler’s 1st Cabinet: Minister of Economics
Alfred Hugenberg
Hitler’s 1st Cabinet: Limitations of power
- Papen attends all Hindenburg + Hitler meetings
- Old Aristocratic elite still made decisions
Importance of the Torchlight procession in Berlin
- 100,000 Nazis members
- Joseph Goebbels wanted to show this was not a normal change of chancellor
- personal triumph for Nazis
Importance of Reichstag Fire
- Increased Nazi support as Dutch Communist blamed
- legally crush civil liberties
- increased terror
Growth of SA from Jan 1933-1934
500,000 - 3 million people
Examples of violence against political opposition
- gangs of SA at KPD and SPD meetings
- Young Nazi shot a SPD mayor of small town in Prussia
- Dachau concentration camp for 5000
Number of political prisoners arrested by SA in July 1933
Around 27,000
How the ‘decree for protection of people and the state’ extended power
- suspended civil liberties
- increased powers for police
- censor publications
- central gov could power of local gov
How many communists were arrested after ‘decree for protection of people and the state’
10,000
Results from March 1933 election
- 43.9% Nazis, increase from Nov32 but not as much as wanted
- KPD 12.3%, SPD 18.25% despite intimidation
