Hitler 1933-1938

How did Hitler become a dictator?

The [blank_start]Nazis[blank_end] took [blank_start]control[blank_end] of the [blank_start]Police force[blank_end] which allowed the [blank_start]SA[blank_end] to beat up or kill any [blank_start]Political Opponents[blank_end]. They also set up a [blank_start]secret[blank_end] police known as the [blank_start]Gestapo[blank_end] to keep an eye on the population.

In [blank_start]February[blank_end] [blank_start]1933[blank_end] the [blank_start]German[blank_end] [blank_start]Parliament[blank_end] building, [blank_start]The Reichstag[blank_end] burned down as a [blank_start]form[blank_end] of [blank_start]protest[blank_end] by a [blank_start]Dutch[blank_end] [blank_start]Communist[blank_end].

In [blank_start]March[blank_end] 1933, after the [blank_start]Reichstag Fire[blank_end], [blank_start]Hitler[blank_end] passed the [blank_start]Enabling Act[blank_end] that gave him [blank_start]power[blank_end] to pass [blank_start]laws[blank_end] without getting them [blank_start]approved[blank_end] by the [blank_start]parliament[blank_end]. He took advantage of this and used the [blank_start]Reichstag Fire[blank_end] as an excuse to ban the [blank_start]Communist[blank_end] party.

[blank_start]Hitler[blank_end] believed that [blank_start]Ernst Rohm[blank_end] had too much [blank_start]power[blank_end] over the [blank_start]SA[blank_end] and was a [blank_start]threat[blank_end] to him. The [blank_start]night of the long knives[blank_end] was when [blank_start]Ernst Rohm[blank_end] was [blank_start]murdered[blank_end] and [blank_start]Communists[blank_end] were [blank_start]prosecuted[blank_end].