The Great Depression: The Main Ingredient
-Unemployment high
-Many Angry Workers
-Hitler, like Roosevelt provided jobs and helped the economy recover through make work projects (e.g. Autobahn)
-Fascist's build armies
Brownshirts (S.A)
- Hitler's henchmen
-Used through the late 20's and early 30's to harrass opposition parties unmercifully
-Led by Ernst Rohm
-After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag
-February 1933
-Dutch Communist 'convicted of the crime'
-Hitler bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming 'communist revolution'
The Enabling Act
-Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats form the brownshirts (S.A.)
-Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
-Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
-Despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won 288 seats, barely a majority
-By July 1933 all other political parties are outlawed
Hitler and Nazism
-Steps to power:
-1928- 12 members of Nazi Party elected to Reichstag
-1930- 107 seats out of 647
-1932 - 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
-President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chancellorship
-1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
- Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against 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
-30 June 1934 those killed were:
-Any would be internal challenges were murdered
-Ernest Rohm leader of S.A.
- All 'socialists', whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
-He declared the Schutzstaffel (S.S) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
-A month later Hindenburg dies and an 'election' was held which voted Hitler in as President
-Unemployment high
-Many Angry Workers
-Hitler, like Roosevelt provided jobs and helped the economy recover through make work projects (e.g. Autobahn)
-Fascist's build armies
Brownshirts (S.A)
- Hitler's henchmen
-Used through the late 20's and early 30's to harrass opposition parties unmercifully
-Led by Ernst Rohm
-After Hitler is elected many are appointed auxiliary police
The Burning of the Reichstag
-February 1933
-Dutch Communist 'convicted of the crime'
-Hitler bullies (with the help of the Brownshirts) the Reichstag into passing the enabling act to face the coming 'communist revolution'
The Enabling Act
-Agreed to by the Reichstag in 1933 under threats form the brownshirts (S.A.)
-Only 93 Social Democrats voted against it
-Allowed Hitler to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag
-Despite the lack of freedom of speech or press Hitler only won 288 seats, barely a majority
-By July 1933 all other political parties are outlawed
Hitler and Nazism
-Steps to power:
-1928- 12 members of Nazi Party elected to Reichstag
-1930- 107 seats out of 647
-1932 - 230 seats out of 647 which made them the largest party
-President Hindenburg refused to give Hitler the Chancellorship
-1932 (second election) Nazis fall to 198 seats
- Hindenburg chooses Hitler as Chancellor as a tool against 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
-30 June 1934 those killed were:
-Any would be internal challenges were murdered
-Ernest Rohm leader of S.A.
- All 'socialists', whom he'd only adopted for electoral reasons
-He declared the Schutzstaffel (S.S) had conducted the murders proudly and was congratulated by Hindenburg
-A month later Hindenburg dies and an 'election' was held which voted Hitler in as President
“The Reichstag has enacted the following law, which is hereby proclaimed with the assent of the Reichsrat, it having been established that the requirements for a constitutional amendment have been fulfilled.
Article 1: In addition to the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may also be enacted by the government of the Reich. This includes the laws referred to by Articles 85 Paragraph 2 and Article 87 of the constitution.
Article 2: Laws enacted by the government of the Reich may deviate from the constitution as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat. The rights of the President remain undisturbed.
Article 3: Laws enacted by the Reich government shall be issued by the Chancellor and announced in the Reich Gazette. They shall take effect on the day following the announcement, unless they prescribe a different date. Articles 68 to 77 of the constitution do not apply to laws enacted by the Reich government.
Article 4: Treaties of the Reich with foreign states which affect matters of Reich legislation shall not require the approval of the bodies of the legislature. The government of the Reich shall issue the regulations required for the execution of such treaties.
Article 5: This law takes effect with the day of its proclamation. It loses force on April 1st 1937 of if the present Reich government is replaced by another.”