The Nazi Dictatorship-Nazis' Consolidation of power? Flashcards
What legal acts did Hitler and the Nazis do to go into power legally?
- Made Chancellor by Hindenburg 30th Jan
- Enabling Act
- Gained 92% votes in Reichstag elections
- SPD outlawed in 22nd June
- Laws against formation of new parties
- Outlawing KPD legal
- ENABLING ACT
- Banning Reichsrat
What illegal acts did Hitler do to gain power illegally?
- Building and usage of concentration camps
- Night of the long knives
- Formation of dachou
When was the enabling act passed in Germany?
24th March 1933
When was the Reichstag fire?
27th Feb 1933
What did the Reichstag fire portray and lead to?
It led to the fear of communism rising as a young Dutch communist supposedly lit the Reichstag on fire leading to the enabling act because of the increased fear from this event for Hindenburg and the population
How did Hitler make the Nazis become a one-party state?
-The KPD was effectively banned after the Reichstag fire in Feburary
-SPD was outlawed as ‘hostile party to the national and the state’ on June 22nd 1933
-Prussia government dismissed by Papen in July 1932 and Goering took over in January 1933
-31st March 1933 First Law for Coordination of Federal States dissolved
existing state assemblies and replaced them with Nazi-Dominated assemblies
-Civil Servants effectively replaced by Nazi Party appointees and began to place party officials in governments who were Nazis
Who was the leader of the SA between 1933-1934?
Ernst Rohm
Why and when was Ernst Rohm executed?
Ernst Rohm was executed in June 30th 1934 in the Night of the Long Knives due to consistent excessive violence from the SA as they were determined to make a second revolution. There was only one party by November 1933 however and the SA were no longer needed for violence and intimidation and so drunken brawls became increasingly common and the police became targets for the SA
Why did Hitler not want attacks against the state to occur?
Attacks on the police and the army were avoided as Hitler was careful not to alienate those conservative forces who had shoe-horned him into power. He wanted the violence to be controlled
