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Nazis Consolidation of
Power 1933-1934
- January 1933
- 30th Hitler
appointed
Chancellor
- Only 3 Nazi Cabinet
members; Hitler,
Goering, Frick
- Hindenburg agrees to dissolve Reichstag on 1st Feb
and hold new elections. Hitler hopes to gain 2/3 majority
- February 1933
- 27th Reichstag Fire
- Suspected arson by
Dutch Communist
- Nazis took advantage to
show a communist threat
- Decree for the Protection of
the People and the State
- Issued by Hindenburg
using Article 48
- Gave secret police
ability to hold people
indefinitely in
protective custody
- Used to
repress KPD
- March 1933
- Highest ever voter
turnout with 88.8%
- Nazis only got
44% of votes
- Government used control
over radio and police to
intimidate opponents
- Goebbels
appointed new
Minister of
Propaganda
- 24th Enabling Act
- Passed 441 to 94 (only
SPD voted against)
- Kroll Opera
House
- Emergency
powers for 4 years
- April 1933
- 1st One Day Boycott
of Jewish shops
- Law for Restoration of
Professional Civil Service
- Administration, courts,
schools, and universities
purged of "alien elements"
- May 1933
- 1st May-Day Holiday turned
into Day of National Labour
- 2nd Trade Union offices seized, all union
incorporated into German Labour Front
- June 1933
- Major public work schemes
such as Autoban
- July 1933
- 14th Law against
formation of New
Parties
- KPD and SPD
already banned
- Other parties dissolved themselves
- 20th Concordant with the Church
- Church banned from
political activities
- Religious Freedom
granted by Government
- October 1933
- 14th Reichstag
disolved
- November 1933
- Nazi Candidates win 92% of vote
- January 1934
- Law for the Reconstruction of the State
- From March, many local
governments overthrown
by SA violence
- Elected State assemblies dissolved
- Reich Governors created to run states
- June 1934
- Night of Long Knives
- SS shot many SA leaders
- Others killed such as Von Papen and Edgar Jung
- Appeased Hitler's conservative supporters
- August 1934
- 1st Law Concerning the Head of State of the
German Reich mergers the offices of the
President and Chancellor in the new position
of Reich Chancellor
- 2nd Hindenburg dies
- Army swears personal
oath of loyalty to Hitler