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The Use of Terror
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The Use of Terror
Start of Hitler's reign
- Nazi storm troopers had played a vital role in Hitler's rise to power
- Once in power, Hitler could use the regimes resources
- power and terror used to aid elimination of opposition
- 'Legal revolution' and 'revolution from below' were both used by the Nazis
- Two sides of the same coin
- 'Revolution from below' was unleashed by the SA, where violent towards political opponents
- January 1933
- SA were the Nazi's main instrument of terror
- When the Nazis came to power, the SA expanded rapidly
- 500.000 members in January 1933 to 3 million members in 1934
- Activities of the SA gained legal authority