Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hitler's rise to power
- Election results
- Role of Papen and Hindenburg
- Hindenburg =
President
- Von Papen =
Chancellor (1932)
- Schleicher took over
- Did not have Hitler's support
- Proposed that Hitler
became Chancellor
- Believed he could
be controlled
- Reichstag Fire 27/2/1933
- Reichstag set on fire
- Blamed on a Dutch Communist
- von der Lubbe
- Communist plot
- Removed communist support
- Used Article 48
- Imprisonment
without trial
- Ended freedoms
guarenteed by state
- Police = total control
- Gave Hitler the power to arrest
- Oppurtunity to remove
political opponents
- General elections 5/3/1933
- 44% voted Nazi
- Arrested 81 communist deputies
- Nationalist and Centre joined Nazi
- Only SPD to oppose (Majority)
- Enabling Act 23/3/1933
- Laws without consultation
of Reichstag
- SA
- Stopped opposition entry
- Beat up those who spoke against Hitler
- passed 444 => 94
- Taking over of Local
goverment + Trade
Unions 26/4 => 2/5
- Replaced teachers,
judges, police
- Set up the Gestapo
- Secret police
- Reported Grumblers
- "undesirable" sent to
concentration camps
- Workers holiday 1/5
- Seized control of
trade unions
- Confiscated money
- Replaced by
DAF ( German
Labour Front)
- Banning of Political
Parties (14/7/34)
- Law against Formation of
Political Parties
- Signed Concordat
- Leave Catholic
church alone
- The Night of the Long
Knives 30/6/34
- SA
- Ernst Roehm = leader
- Dislike Hitler
- Wanted SA to be new German army
- Many wanted a National
Socialist Revolution
- Hitlists compiled
- Himmler, Heydrich and Goering
- Himmler = leader of SS
- Events
- SS and police arrest
dozens of SA leaders
- Killed in homes
- Roehm and Strasser shot
- Ex-Chancellor Schleicher also killed
- Results
- 1000 dead
- Death of Hindenburg
- Declared himself Fuhrer
and Reich Chancellor
- Army Oath
- The army swore their loyalty to Hitler