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German History : 1 Government and Politics - Third Reich - Coggle Diagram
German History : 1 Government and Politics - Third Reich
Reichstag Fire
27th Feb 1933
Carried out by Marinus Van der Lubbe
Led to Reichstag Fire decree
28th Feb 1933
Decree for the Protection and Peoples and the State
Suspended right of freedom and to protest
Led to around 10,000 arrests in the following 2 weeks
The March Elections
Nazis attempted to get majority of seats
KPD, SPD and trade union leaders put in concentration camps
didn't get full majority (43%)
The Enabling Act
24th March 1933
Gave Hitler the powers to make laws without consulting the Reichstag
The only reason he managed to pass this act is because the 81 KPD deputies had been arrested and others were scared
Hitler becomes Fuhrer
1st of August Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich
Hindenburg dies on the 2nd of August 1933 from lung cancer
Law combined role of President and Chancellor (Fuhrer) and role was automatically given to Hitler
Gleichschaltung
SPD and KPD banned wand other parties dissolved
14th July 1933 other political parties banned
Trade Unions legally dissolved in May 1933 after tricking them
Jan 1934 regional parliaments abolished
Apr 1933 purged communists, socialists and Jews from civil service
Night of the Long Knives
30th June 1934
Hitler purged Rohm (killed) and SA to avoid an army coup
SA membership fell to 1 million
Replaced by SS and Himmler while also gaining respect and loyalty from army
1935 Nuremburg Laws
1935 a lot of SA attacks on Jews
worried about effect on things like exports
Hitler changed anti-semetic speech at Nuremburg
1936 violence stopped for Olympics
Euthanaisa
Hitler allowed nominations for Euthanasia (60,000)
Under code name 'Aktion T4' 100,000 killed over next 4 years
1938 father wrote for son to be put out of his misery (illness) inspiring Hitler
technically illeagal as it wasn't passed by law
Kristallnacht 1938
1938 growth of antisemetion
8th Nov Nazi official killed by Jew in Paris
Hitler approves action to Goebbells
led to Jewish violence on 9th-10th Nov 1938
30,000 jews arrested
91 jews killed
267 synagogues destroyed
Nature of Nazi gov
Polycracy
'many diffrent bodies'
no clear lines of communication
overlapping responsibility
Working towards Fuhrer
He was a lazy leader who didn't look into detail and only spoke his ideas and didn't have formal meetings
Prerogative state - lawlessness of the Nazi state as laws weren't debated or reviewed by the judiciary