Firstly, they were successful at controlling the society, as Hitler managed to get the Reichstag to agree to the Enabling Act. This meant that the Reichstag was literally voting themself out of power. It allowed Hitler and the Nazi Party to pass any laws they wanted to without permission from the Reichstag or the German people. This allowed Germany to be totally under control of one dictator, Hitler, and gave him all the power he wanted. Through the Enabling Act, he could then step out and truly begin transforming Germany into one big Nazi-controlled country that would obey his every word.
A very critical event, Hitler attained absolute power after this act was passed. April 1933 Local governments are reorganized and Hitler establishes Gestapo (German secret police) Local government comes directly under Nazi party’s
Van der Lubbe was caught at the site of the fire with matches and firelighters. He was put on trial and was then executed after being found guilty of doing it. Hitler and Goebbels used this opportunity to plan an attack against the communists and exploit them. This lead to the enabling bill (decree for the protection of people and state) which allowed Hitler to declare a state of emergency as he convinced Hindenburg that Van der Lubbe was part of a communist conspiracy against the government . In my opinion the Reichstag fire was one of the most important underlying factor that helped Hitler establish a dictatorship as it allowed Hitler to end communism and remove most of his opposition and therefore increasing the amount of votes on election day in his favour.
n 1919, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own. He approved of Drexler's German nationalism and anti-Semitism but was unimpressed with the way the party was organized. Although there as a spy, Hitler could not restrain himself when a member made a point he disagreed with, and he stood up and made a passionate speech on the subject.
This propaganda continued even once they had won the election. Furthermore, once the Nazi’s had gained power, they began to push anti-Jew and other very racist and fascist propaganda on the people of Germany. Hitler was shown in newspapers and presented on the radio as a strong and just leader; with the Jews being represented as evil. Propaganda was therefore crucial to the maintenance of power by the Nazis as it meant when they began their attack on the Jews, they had the support of their people. Furthermore, it can be argued that propaganda was crucial to the maintenance of power by the Nazis as they portrayed Hitler as powerful and showed him to be good for the country, making sure people continued to show support for the Nazis and it portrayed Hitler as above all party politicking and as a figure for national focus and loyalty.
“Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933 because he was leader of the most popular Party in Germany. How far do you agree with this judgement?” The Nazi Party (NSDAP) became the largest political Party in German Reichstag after the Reichstag elections in July 1932. The Nazi Party won 37.3% of the vote which gave them 230 seats in the Reichstag out of a total 608 seats. Despite being the single largest Party, the German President, Paul von Hindenburg, refused to appoint Hitler as Chancellor. Even though Hindenburg was in Hitler’s way of gaining the Chancellorship, there were many other factors that lead to Hitler becoming Chancellor in January 1933 and not just because he was leader of the most popular Party in Germany.
Hitler used this to express fear of communism and display anti-communist messages through media and speeches.He also used this to pass down a Law for the Protection of People and State, this presidential decree was regarded by historians as an important factor in Hitler establishing a one-party Nazi state. It enabled him to arrest a large amount of communists and hold them for a long time without trial,imprison anyone considered opponents to the Nazi and suppress any publications and newspapers that were not friendly to the Nazi cause. The anti-communist messages they used and the Reichstag fire used to justify this message and the imprisoning of opponents were indeed effective as in March 1933 the Nazis achieved their best ever election result (44% of the votes). The enabling act aslo was important to establish a dictatorship in Germany. The Reichstag voted itself out of existence where the communists were banned from voting and the Social Democrats and Centre Party voted for the Enabling Act to be passed down.
With the Nazi Party now firmly rooted in the political scene, Hitler sought to combine his power through the implementation of the Enabling Act; this law would effectively abolish any trace of power held by the Reichstag and the president. The introduction of the Gleichschaltung from 1933 to 1934 allowed a widespread reconfiguration of all areas of German life and thus saw the Nazification of the nation, enforcing the extent to which Nazi ideology had permeated the scope of German society and the limitless parameters of Hitler’s authority. This was assisted by the intimidation inspired by Hitler’s SA and SS, who successfully eliminated any opposition of the Nazi state. Finally, however, it was the support of the Reichswehr that would pave the rule of Nazism in Germany, which was only obtained as a result of the Night of the Long Knives, where the threat of usurpation by the SA was abolished and Hitler’s ruler ship in the event of Hindenburg’s death was guaranteed. The conservative parties and elites made up of the army, right-wing parties, politicians, businessmen and Junkers had a major role in the
The Reichstag Fire took place on 27 February and the building burning was a dramatic development for the Nazis. Hitler used the event to place blame on the Communists and declared that the fire was the beginning of a Communist uprising. He demanded special emergency powers to deal with the situation and was given them by President Hindenburg. The Nazi used this power to arrest Communists, break up meetings and frighten voters. Due to many Germans thinking it was the communists, Hitler would’ve gained even more followers for the Nazi Party and an even bigger amount of power given by Hindenburg.
It maintained control through a mixture of propaganda and intimidation. 1. Government (Political Control) The way Hitler consolidated power in 1933-34 meant that the Nazis had complete control of national and regional government. (Political parties were banned - only the Nazi party is allowed to exist on 14th June 1933.) 2.