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Hitler’s Methods of Consolidating power. - Coggle Diagram
Hitler’s Methods of Consolidating power.
Use of law
Law of the reconstruction of the state
Local governments being overthrown BY SA violence
Allows reich government to appoint new commissioners meaning laws to formalize situation
Current elected assembly was disolved
Reich governors were created to run states
Law concerning head of state of the German Reich
Hitler proceeded to combine the office of Reich president with that of chancellor allowing ultimate power.
Hitler becomes president... keeps titile of Der Fuher
Army swears oath of allegiance
Emergency decrees
Issued by Hindenburg through use of article 48
Suspended civil rights (police could hold people under protective custody)
Air of respectability
Open to several ideologies
Hitler was recognized as “center of success for the Nazis”
Consessions
Terror - Intimidation
SA officials murders by members of Nazi party
Elimination of future "posible threats"
Reich wide Co-ordination
Control over radio and police plus unofficial pressure
KPD and SPD banned --> Germany becomes one party state
Propaganda
Propagandas that were portrayed in Germany manipulated people into enhancing their already existing sympathies with the nazis, leading to support
Reinforced the ideas that there was one common enemy: jews and marxists… this lead to germans “uniting”
Wide popular appeal
Nazis win over 230 seats in Reichstag elections
Presidential elections
Hitler attracted a large percentage of middle class supporters, rural germans and unskilled workers