Hitler's rise to power

Hitler's rise to power

1. Election results

2. 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

3. 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

4. General elections 5/3/1933

   • 44% voted Nazi
   • Arrested 81 communist deputies
   • Nationalist and Centre joined Nazi
   • Only SPD to oppose (Majority)

5. Enabling Act 23/3/1933

   • Laws without consultation of Reichstag
   • SA
     • Stopped opposition entry
     • Beat up those who spoke against Hitler
   • passed 444 => 94

6. 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)

7. Banning of Political Parties (14/7/34)

   • Law against Formation of Political Parties
   • Signed Concordat
     • Leave Catholic church alone

8. 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

9. Death of Hindenburg

   • Declared himself Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor

10. Army Oath

    • The army swore their loyalty to Hitler

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