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Hitler´s Methods of Consolidating Power - Coggle Diagram
Hitler´s Methods of Consolidating Power
Use of Law
The Enabling Act
This was to provide the basis for Hitler’s dictatorship. It virtually destroyed the power of the Reichstag by allowing the chancellor to issue laws without consultation for a period of four years. 4 months later Hitler had set up a single-party state
Emergency decrees
Law against the Formation of New Parties
Employment Law
Law of Restoration of Professional Civil Service
Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the Nation and the State
Law for the Reconstruction of the State
Air of Respectability
WW1 veteran
Ilusion of charismatic strong man who was to be the bringer of salvation
Concessions
The Night of the Long Knives
: Increased his popularity with the army who deeply disliked the SA
May-Day Holiday
Concordant agreement between state and Vatican
Withdrawal from Disarmament Conference and League of Nations
Terror - Intimidation
Threat
of terror
Targetted
violence
The SA
"The end justify the means"
Thousands of left-wing opponents were arrested
Reich wide Co - ordination
Dissolution of Reichstag
Propaganda
Nazi used this as a tool to enhance believes German citizens already nursed
New Ministry for Public Enlightment and Propaganda
Appeal to each segment of society and moderated their message for each one. For instance, in the propaganda targeted towards the working class, Nazis offered employment.
One day boycott of Jewish shops (1 April 1933)
Völkischer Beobachter (People’s Observer) = Nazi newspaper
Wide popular appeal
Reichstag Fire
This incident permitted a further law that allowed the imprisonment of communists and helped to increase support for the Nazis in the March 1933 elections.
(12 November 1933) Nazi list of candidates for Reichstag win 92% of votes
Nazi ideology
Nationalist
Racialist
Socialist
Anti-Semitic
Anti-democratic
By July 1932, the Nazis were the largest
party in the Reichstag (parliament).
Who did the Nazis attracted?
Ex-soldiers, members of the Freikorps, conservative lower-middle-class workers, lower-ranking Bavarian civil servants, and students