Essay G

Question 1

INTRO 12

Answer 1

• Consolidation of power
• Legality & Violence
• Influential
• Advantage of Situations
• Pass Laws before Power
• Threats, Lies, Manipulation
• Reichstag Fire
• Enabling Act
• Night of Long Knives
• Gleischaltung
• SA aid
• Interal/External Opposition

Question 2

PARA ONE 14

Answer 2

• Hitler Chancellor
• Hindenburg control Hitler
• Reichstag Fire 27 Feb 33
• Van Der Lubbe
• Blamed COMMUNIST
• Destroy government
• Law for the Protection of People and the State
• Nazi’s Took Advantage
• March 5th Election 43.9%
• Enabling Act March 23
• 444 voter 94 AGAINST
• SA stopped deputies/violence
• Power to do anything he liked
• Dictator

Question 3

PARA TWO NIGHT OF LONG KNIVES 17

Answer 3

• 30th June 193
• SS took SA leaders by surprise
• Berlin, Munich
• Rohm and leaders arrested and accused of PLOTTING TO OVERTHROW THE STATE
• von Schleicher killed (critic of Hitler and formed Chancellor)
• Hitler accused Rohm of treason and murder
• 200 + killed
• Strengthening Hitler’s power
• Hitler had put down threat of SA, and satisfied army
• 1934; 3 million
• Larger than Germany army
• Seen as a threat and rival by German army
• Rohm believed they should be the MAIN army
• Wanted army to be incorporated in SA, him as ultimate leader
• Needed support of German army, which had power to crush his dictatorship whenever it pleased
• Alarmed Hitler as SA was loyal to Rohm, not Hitler
• To take position as commander-in-chief of armed forces when Hindenburg died he needed backing of ARMY NOT SA

Question 4

PARA THREE - RESULTS 14

Answer 4

• • nipped treason in the bud’
• Army satisfied
• Weakened SA so that it couldn’t break free of Nazi control or threaten leadership
• Hitler had no oppositions
• SS replaced SA
• Army increased in numbers
• One Party State
• March 31st 1933; Provincial parliaments shut down
• April 7th 1933; Managers appointed for provinces (members of Nazi Party)
• Hidenburg Death
• Fuhrer
• Via Enabling Act
• Third Reich

Question 5

CONCLUSION 4

Answer 5

• Use of legality
• Consolidate
• Significant
• “The authority of the Führer has now been wholly established. Votes are no longer taken. The Führer decides. All this is going much faster than we had dared to hope.” Goebbels, diary