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When and how did Germany become an authoritarian state,1933-4? - Coggle…

- - - - 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
        
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        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
        
        Had to get rid of because it was associated with Leftist influence + Nazis wanted to break trade unions and the power of organized labour
        
        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)
      - 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