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consolidation of power
church opposition
niemoller sermon
niemoller preached a sermon to remind church leaders of the importance of speaking out against the nazi policies
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martin niemoller
pro nazi
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niemoller voted for them in 1924 and 1933 elections as he felt the weimar republic needed a strong leader
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one of the main church opponents of hitler was martin niemoller but he didnt always oppose the nazis
very against nazis
niemoller was arrested many times for speaking out against the nazis and hitler between 1934 and 1937
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enabling act
enabling act of 1933
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hitler proposed the enabling act in order to destroy the power of the reichstag and give himself total power to make laws, it stated that
hitler expected opposition to the enabling act so used the SA to intimidate the opposition. he won the vote by the 444 to the nazis to 94
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reichstag fire
it gave hitler an excuse to issue a decree for the protection of the people and the state giving him powers to imprison politcal opponents and ban opposotion newspapers
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the nazi party managed to secure two thirs of the seats by using the emergency powers to prevent the communists from taking their 81 seats
a lone dutch communist was executed for starting the fire but hitler seized the oppurtunity to accuse the communist party of a conspiracy against the government
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a police state
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police state
SD (security service)
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spied on all opponents of the nazi party , both at home and abroad
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the legal system
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he set up a peoples court to hear all treason cases. trials were held in secret and judges were hand picked
policing
hitler set up his own security forces as he realised not all the exisitingf german police supported him
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hitler becames fuhrer
death of hindeburg
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within hours a law concerning the head of state merged the offices of chancellor and president to create a new office of fuhrer
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furher means leader. nazi sulate made people swear loyalty to him- he was depicted as having superhuman herioic qualities
army oath of allegiance
the day hindenburg died, hitler announced the army should swear an oath of allegiance to him, not germany
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rohm hitler and the SA
many of the SA were bitter because they felt undervalued and angry because many were still unemplyed but they were loyal to rohm
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youth opposition
the edelweiss pirates
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the alpine flower, the edelweiss was used as their symbol
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they were formed in the late 1930s possiby as a consequence of nazi polices enforicing hitler youth membership
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the swing youth
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they gathered to drink alcohol, smoke and dance
unlike the pirates they were largely made up of children from wealthy families with the money to buy records and their own record players
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