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Hitler's aims once he was in power & steps he took to ensure total…
Hitler's aims once he was in power & steps he took to ensure total control of Germany
Aims
Remove all opposition
Gain dictatorship
Volksgemeinschaft & lebensraum
focusing expansion eastwards (e.g. Russia)
Reverse the Treaty of Versailles (e.g. remilitarise the Rhineland)
Revive Germany's economic state (further ruined by the Great Depression)
possibly through war economy
Make Germany a great power again
European domination?
Steps he took to ensure total control
Enabling Act
Destroyed trade unions & established the DAF
Used the Reichstag Fire to paint Communists as the enemy
July 1933: declared all political parties (other than the Nazi Party) illegal
Abolished state governments, transferring power to the central government through the Law for Reconstruction of the State
Perspectives
Fanatic - Hitler aimed consistently at expansion & war
Roper & Shirer
Opportunist - Hitler had no blueprint for aggression
Taylor
Synthesis
Bullock