Hitler’s Consolidation Of Power Flashcards
What were Hitler’s steps to power?
1st Feb - dissolved Reichstag, called new election
27th February - reichstag building set on fire
28th - decree for the Protection of People & state
5th March - elections
(43.9% - still short of 2/3rd majority)
6/7 March - began taking over state governments
8th march - first concentration camps established in Dachau
18th - ministry for Propaganda
24th - enabling act passed (arrest without charge)
marinus van der lubbe- Dutch coumunist.
Hitter thought it was communist
Hitler’s strengths
Leader of the right party was needed because of collapse of government
SA reached 500,00 members in 1933. (32:400,,000) 1934 - 3 million
Now controlled many state owned organisations
Minister for Propaganda in Prussia - Goering - (Prussia - largest face) - could control police
Hitler more skilled
Weaknesses of Hitler
Hindenberg could appoint or dismiss him and had control over the army
Only 3/12
Papen felt he could control Hitler
Left wing trade unions had not been broken & could organise strikes
Hitler’s propaganda - use
30th of January balcony of Reich Chancellery possession of 100,000 members
Use of violence?
Frick - minister for interior
Goering - minister for interior
-> gained control of the police
Legal revolution/revolution from below - SA unleashed SA against communist and socialist opponents - broke up KPD/SPD meetings
Centre party and SPD newspapers condemning the killings banned 5th feb - SPD mayor of small town dead
Legal power from DftPPS?
Suspended civil and political rights guaranteed under the Weimar constitution - gained increased powers to arrest and detain without charge, also censor publications
Arrested 10,000 communists in 1 week - often judges & police willing to go along with it
March 33 election results
64% non Nazi parties but had DNVP (8%) as allies
KROLL OPERAHOUSE MEETING AND ENABLING ACT?
23rd March - act gave him power to make treaties with foreign powers
Gained 2/3 needed to make this legal (as it was a change to the constitution) - only DNVP voted as communist deputies unable to take their seats and Centre Party reassured he would not use the powers without consulting Hindenberg - only SPD voted against
Extent of terror
JUL 1933 - 26,789 political prisoners
SA AND STALHELM MERGED - auxiliary police
Hitler knew he needed the army. They were worried by talk of a ‘national revolution’ - met senior officers on 3rd Feb and outlined plans for rearmament - reassured that SA would not undermine them
20th Feb - met leading industrialists and asked support for Nazi campaign - made him stop attacks on large capitalist enterprises
How did Germany become a one party state
KPD banned
SPD outlawed as a party hostile to the nation JUNE 33
Centre and DNVP dissolved themselves
Law against the Formation of New Parties
Law for the co ordination of Federal states - reich governors
What happened during NofLN
Rohm’s aim was for the SA to absorb and replace existing army
1933 - had lost auxiliary police status and had stricter regulations - had resentment that former conservative opponents could join the Nazi party
Pressure increased when Papen made a speech at Marburg university criticising violence of SA written by Jung
Von schleicher tried to ask Gregor strasser to be vice chancellor
What happened following Hindenberg’s death
2nd Aug 1934 - H died
19th Aug - plebiscite held to get German people’s seal of approval on appointment as Fuhrer and reich Chancellor
89.9%
