When and how did Germany become an authoritarian state,1933-4?
Hitler's consolidation of power, 1933-1934
Gleichschaltung and the establishment of the Führerstate 1933-34
The Enabling Act, March 1933
Law for the Re-establishment of the Civil Service, April 1933
Abolition of the trade unions, May 1933
Dissolution of all political parties except the NSDAP, July 1933
Party purge, Night of the Long Knives, June1934
Absorption of state governments and replacement with centralised structure GAU, KREIS, ORT, ZELL, BLOCK, July 1934
Death of Hindenburg and personal oath of allegiance to Hitler by armed forces, August 1934
Adolf Hitler Führer
Hitler's position as Chancellor allowed him to take advantage of the roles of Göring as Prussian Ministry of the Interior and Frick as National Minister of the Interior, making it possible for the NSDAP to achieve absolute majority vote
The Reichstag Fire allowed Hitler to get rid of the KPD by framing the event as a communist coup
Would allow Hitler to rule for 3 or 4 years, essentially making him dictator
Hindenburg signed the bill that basically gave his constitutional powers to Hitler
Churches, military, the labour movement, and the civil service were to be brought under control to make Nazi power a reality
allowed the government to get rid of things that were considered anti-Nazi (getting rid of officials that were not Aryan or that did not agree with Nazi ideologies)
Had to get rid of because it was associated with Leftist influence + Nazis wanted to break trade unions and the power of organized labour
Because of rivalry between Ernst Röhm and leading Nazis like Heinrich Himmler (chief of the SS) and Göring
The claim that Röhm was planning a "second revolution" to redistribute wealth
Fear that Röhm's ambitions to amalgamate the SA and the army forces under his control would antagonize the army