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"All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. "
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Brownshirts (S.A.)
- Hitler's paramiltary force
- Used during the late 20's and early 30's to harras opposition parties
- Led by Ernst Rohm
- After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag
- February 1933
- Hitler needed to make Communists look bad
- Hitler used the burnt Reichstag and said the communists commited a crime
- Used this to pass the enabling act
The Enabling Act
- Even after that, Hitler barely beats communists with 288 seats which is barely majority
- a 1933 law that made Hitler dictator of Nazi Germany.
- passed by Germany's Reichstag
- signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on 23 March 1933
- Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
- Outlawed all other political parties
- Hitler - Chancellor (Head of Gov't)
Hitler and Nazism
- Steps to power
- 1928 - 12 memebers of Nazi party to Reichstag
- 1930 - 107 seats out of 647
- 1932 - 230 seats but still communists got Chancellor because President Indenburg refused to give Hitler the Chancellorship
- 1932 (2nd election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
- Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor and as a tool agaisnt the Communists
- 1933 Feb. - Reichstag fire election - 288 seats (majority due to imprisonment of Communist members)
- 1933 March Enabling Act
- Forms the Gestapo (secret police)
The Night of the Long Knives
- No one oppsed Hitler so he looked for enemies in his party
- 30 June 1934 killed a bunch of people
- Got rid of SA and gets SS (Shutzstaffel) instead
- Killed all socialists
- 99.9% of vote for Hitler for President and he's a dictator now
Summary
Hitler was voted in and with Enabling Act, he started his dictatorship. Later when the president died, he came into full power.