Topic 3 Opposition Flashcards
However the SA were
Wiewed negatively in the public because of their violence
The army which hitler needed hated rohms idea of mixing them with SA
as rohm was in charge of a large number of men hitler feared his power
SA leader
Ernst rohm believed because of his role in helping hitler to power they would be entitled a significant role in the new state
Rohm and the SA tended to be on the left side of the party and
Wanted hitler to make them the vanguard of the so called revolution
This would have meant implementing social aspects of the nazi ideas eg conservative elements swept away but hitler needed this to stay in power
The night of the long knives
30 June 1934
Rohm and about 400 leaders of the SA were murdered by the SS with army support
Hitler also took this time to have schleicher and Gregor strasser killed to secure his own position.
The move was
Both illegal and ruthless but proved popular
When Hindenburg died
2 August 1934 these actions cleared the way for hitlers total supremacy
He combined offices of president and chancellor and every soldier swore an oath to him
He was now not constrained by any constitutional limits therefore lady of the party army and nation
Catholic Church
Hitler was more wary of Catholics than Protestants inside Germany
14 July 1933 Catholic Church signed a concordat To preserve its independence
Protistant church
Govt turned the evangelican into one united reichstag church with a nazi as bishop
However100+ plasters reacted by forming splinter movement which aimed at preserving Protestantism
And other attempts to make a more nazified church failed
Army
1933 hitler won over the army when he agreed to honour their traditions and political neutrality
They were also impressed by talk of rearmament and conscription
The army escaped coordination
Who stayed intact
Bureaucratic and big business elites
