Hitler Becomes Fuhrer

Question 1

Why rohm and the SA were a threat to hitler

Answer 1

Rohm did not like hitlers policies
Many of the SA were bitter because they felt undervalued and angry because many were still unemployed but they were loyal to rohm
The SA away much bigger than the army and the army feared rohm wanted to replace them
The leaders of the SS wanted to reduce the size of the SA in order to increase their own power

Question 2

Who were the SS

Answer 2

Set up in 1925
Hitlers bodyguards
Select group firstly run by Schreck and then by Himmler
Wore black uniforms

Question 3

What happened in the night of the long knives

Answer 3

Hitler decided to rid himself of the threat of rohm and the SA
He did this by inviting Rohm and 100 SA leaders to a meeting in the town of Bad Wiessee on the 30th June 1934
Was a ruse when leaders arrived they were arrested by the SS taken to Munich and shot

Question 4

What happened after the arrests

Answer 4

Von papens staff were arrested and his home surrounded
Von papen was no longer able to watch what hitler was up to
Further killings occurred including that of von schliecher

Question 5

Death of Hindenburg

Answer 5

He was the only person senior to hitler
In august 1934 he died
Within hours a law concerning the head of state merged the offices of the chancellor and president to create a new office if Fuhrer

Question 6

What is Fuhrer

Answer 6

Means leader

Question 7

Hitlers use of propaganda

Answer 7

Used it to ensure he looked powerful
The heil hitler solute made people swear loyalty to him personally and he was portrayed as having superhuman heroic qualities

Question 8

Army oath allegiance

Answer 8

The day Hindenburg died hitler announced that the army should swear an oath of allegiance to him not Germany