Hitler's Consolidation

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Hitler's CoP
- Terror
  - ** and SA intimidation
    - Enabling Act passed
    - March 1933 Reichsatg election
      - BUT they didn't win majority
  - Seized Trade Unions on May 2nd
  - Night of the Long Knives
    - 200 opponents executed
  - Reichstag Fire
- Legal Powers
  - 'Emergency Decree for the Protection of People and State'
    - Opponents arrested
    - KPD banned
  - Law Against Establishment of New Parties
  - Enabling Act passed March 1933
    - Rule by Decree for 4 years
    - Day of Potsdam 21 March
      - Appealed to the traditional ways
  - Gleichschaltung enforced through abolition of federal states
- Propaganda
  - Reichstag Fire blamed on Van der Lubbe, a communist
    - Exploited fear to pass Enabling Act
  - Day of Potsdam
    - Appealed to 'Old Germany'
      - No strong views
      - Included Crown Prince
  - Goebbels
    - Won votes in March 1933 election
Political skills means his use of terror was justified legally, and Hitler was able to use situations to his advantage
- BUT only made Chancellor after Hindenburgs death

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