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Panther, Approximately 4 weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as…
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Approximately 4 weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor, the Reichstag building was set on fire.
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The Nazis relied upon their allies, the Nationalist Party, for support but even with that, they did not have a majority in the Reichstag.
one week before the election, the Reichstag building was burnt down due to this fire.
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Without a majority to pass legislation and without Hindenburg’s support, he called a general election for 5th March 1933.
The Nazis were then able to imprison large numbers of opposition party members. Over 4000 Communist Party members including Ernst Thälman were arrested.
The Enabling Act would give Hitler and his government full powers for the next 4 years as it gave powers for the German Cabinet to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.
The March 1933 election had seen the Nazis win 288 seats in the Reichstag however this was still not enough for a majority.
In the following November 1933 election they still did not win a majority even though they had increased their vote count by 5.5 million votes after the reichstag fire.
This forced the Nazis to form a coalition government with the National Party (DNVP) which gave them a majority of 51.9% in the Reichstag.
The SS murdered around 400 members of the SA, including Röhm, along with a number of Hitler's other opponents like the previous Chancellor, von Schleicher.
Members of the SA, including its leader Ernst Röhm, were demanding that the Nazi party carry out its socialist agenda and that the SA take over the army.
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It also showed the rest of the world what a tyrant Hitler was. This removed any internal Nazi Party opposition to Hitler.
Trade unions were banned. Instead, German workers were now expected to join the new German Labour Front (DAF)
Trade unions could unite people to protest – therefore the Nazis had got rid of a potential form of opposition.
They destroyed a possible form of sympathy and support for their arch-enemies, the communists.
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Hitler became Führer: when Hindenburg died, Hitler declared himself jointly president,
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Members of the armed forces had to swear a personal oath of allegiance not to Germany, but to Hitler.
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