topic 4- legal consolidation of power 1933-14

Question 1

what was the german labor force

Answer 1

DAF took control of trade unions and national socialist factory cell organisation

Question 2

purpose of the German labor force

Answer 2

allowing employers and employees to discuss pay and working conditions

Question 3

what was the ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda

Answer 3

lead by Goebbels. controlled media and anti-soviet propaganda

Question 4

what was the gestapo

Answer 4

created by goring. add above the existing police. abolished distinction between working for party and state

Question 5

when was the Gestapo created?

Answer 5

april 1933

Question 6

how was the confusing bureaucracy good for Hitler’s power.

Answer 6

created a new level of power. decreased officials poer and left them on a lower level so they were too low to challenge hitler

Question 7

what was first law for the co-ordination of federal states

Answer 7

dissolved all lander and ordered all state its to represent the votes in the last Reichstag election (excluding communist seats)
dissolved regional parliaments and then reformed them with ‘acceptable majorities’ which meant that Nazis dominated regional government

Question 8

when was first law for the co-ordination of federal states

Answer 8

March 1933

Question 9

what was the law for the restoration of a professional civil service

Answer 9

co-ordination of the civil serivce including beurcrats and schoolteachers. authorised removal of jews and communists for all positions.

however, nazis had an uneasy relationship with civil service as many members of the service came for aristocracy nazis threatened to take their power

Question 10

when was the law for the restoration of a professional civil service?

Answer 10

7th April 1933

Question 11

when was the second law the coordination of the federal states?

Answer 11

7th April 1933

Question 12

what was the second law the coordination of the federal states?

Answer 12

deployed reichsstatthalter (reich governer) in each state. apart from prussia.
responsible to interior minister Wilhelm frick
reich governors were usually party Gauleiters 

nazis building on top of existing structures

Question 13

when was the law against the formation of new parties

Answer 13

14th july 1933

Question 14

what was the law against the formation of new parties

Answer 14

all other non-nazi political parties dissolved.

SPD outlawed as ‘hostile to the nation’ on 22nd june

Question 15

when was the reich reconstructed?

Answer 15

30th January 1934

state assemblies abolished reich governed position was redundant but not abolished
tension between reich govs and state

Question 16

when was the abolition of reichstrat

Answer 16

14th February 1934

Question 17

when was the night of long knives

Answer 17

30 june-2 july 1934

Question 18

why did Hitler need to abolish the SA

Answer 18

• loyal to Rohm and not to Hitler
• concerned that there would be a revolution from below in the nazi party so needed to show his power
• Rohm was a natural rebel and wasn’t scared to surprise against Hitler wasn’t fully loyal
• Rohn and Sa wanted ‘second revolution’

Question 19

why was the night of long knives significant

Answer 19

• everyone was now frightened of Hitler so no one called him out for the murders.
• won the support of the elite and army as the Sa were a threat to the army’s power
• showed new state want a traditional and contrary to how he portrayed himself in 1933
• no one will try and overthrow him in party or public now

Question 20

what is a plebiscite?

Answer 20

• a referendum

Question 21

why was Hindenburg powerful

Answer 21

• has article 48
• army is loyal to him
• Hindenburg can choose a new chancellor

Question 22

why did the army become loyal to Hitler after Hindenburg’s death

Answer 22

• he removed the threat of the SA and then they had no further objection to Hitler succeeding Hindenburg as president

Question 23

when did hindenburg die?

Answer 23

2nd August 1934

Question 24

what did Hitler do an hour after Hindenburg’s death

Answer 24

announced that office of president would be merged with chancellor becoming further and commander-in-chief of the reichweir

Question 25

what plebiscite was held on 19nth August 1934

Answer 25

german people’s ‘seal of approval’ on Hitler’s appointment as fuher.
approx 90% voted for
4.5 million voters had the courage to vote no

Question 26

significance of Hindenburg’s death

Answer 26

• nobody left to oppose him. government no longer regarded itself as bound by the 1919 constitution