Hilter's Consolidation of power- Gleichschaltung Flashcards
Establishing the totalitarian state - the path to dictatorship Creating the totalitarian -Gleichschaltung -The night of the long knives -nazism as Toralitarianism
The Enabling act and voting for a dictatorship- When did the Nazis propose the Enabling Act
23th March 1933
The Civil Service- How many Germans worked for the civil service?
1.6 million
The Civil Service- In April 1933 what law for civil service was passed.
Law for the restoration of the professional civil service passed
Trade Unions- What parties did the working class traditonally support?
SPD & KPD
Trade Unions- How did the Nazis gain support from the working class? (5)
- Granted May Day holiday
- Called for end of class warfare
- Abolished free trade union
- Raided offices + leaders arrested
- German labour front established
End of Political Parties- After the enabling act what happened to the other parties?
KPD + SPD banned, property confiscated + seats dissolved.
DDP then dissolved itself, followed by DNVP + DVP.
Center Party finally folded.
November 1933 Election and Controlling the state- What happened in the November 1933 election?
o No other parties – the vote was used to prove popularity.
o Reichstag a ‘venue’ for Hitlers proclamations.
• German states needed to be brought under control + centralised.
November 1933 Election and Controlling the state- What happened in the January 1934 election?
Reichstat abolished – authority given to Reich.
The Legal System- Did the legal system always express sympathy for right-wing parties?
Yes
showed by the Beer Hall Putsch, could have deported Hutler to Austria
The legal System- How was the rise of the Nazi Party a slow process to appear “legal”?
- 1934- professional bodies abolished such as the Nationalist Socialist League for Maintenance of laws.
- Publication controlled by state
- Judges expected to interpret law according to “will of the Fuhrer”
- April 1934 peoples court established- crimes against state, accused had no right to appeal.
