Hitler Becomes Chancellor

Question 1

Preparations for the March 1933 election

Answer 1

• elections were on the 6th March 1933
• Hitler addressed the country over the radio a day after his appointment as chancellor in 31st Jan, promising ‘national discipline will govern our life’
• invoked God and nationalism

Question 2

Hitler’s ministers

Answer 2

Hitler given 3 cabinet seats after becoming Chancellor that he could chose

• Wilhelm Frick was minister of the interior
• Herman Goering - minister of Prussia
• these were clever choices since Prussia was Germany’s largest state and the minster of the interior controlled the police and judiciary, important things to Hitler

Question 3

Hitler’s other ministers

Answer 3

Army - Werner von Bloomberg
Economics - Hugenberg
Labour - Franz Seldte
- Seldte founded the Stalhelm and in April, it and the SA merged

Question 4

The end of the Weimar Republic

Answer 4

• Weimar flag banned on 12th March 1933
• Hitler proclaimed 3rd Reich on 15th March 1933
• Dachau concentration camp opened on 20th March 1933

Question 5

Nazi infiltration of government

Answer 5

• Nazis began to get into government

- 13th March - Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was set up under Goebbels