1. Hitler Becomes Führer

4. Allowed laws to “deviate from the constitution”

7. Hindenburg invoked Article 48

8. National government assumed the powers of the state governments.

9. Hitler declared martial law

11. Goering ordered Heinrich Himmler to build Dachau to house 15,000 political prisoners.

12. Concentration camps later also used for homeless, beggars, gypsies and hardened criminals.

15. Catholic Centre Party voted in favor in return for Nazi guarantees regarding the Church liberties.

16. SPD only party to vote against

17. Passed 441 – 84

18. Renewed every four years through WWIIGerman Reichstag in session.

19. All rival political parties banned or dissolved. All remaining German institutions and organizations Nazified or disbanded.

22. Army generals feared 4.5 million member SA would absorb the 100,000 man German Army

23. Industrialists disliked Rohm’s socialist views.

24. Many Nazi leaders disapproved of Rohm’s and other SA leaders’ homosexuality

26. SS given independent status; no longer part of the SA.

27. SS Leader Heinrich Himmler now answered to Hitler and no one else.

29. Proclaimed himself to be supreme judge of the German people making his word the law

31. August 20, 1934: All public employees – military, civil service, police, teachers, and judiciary – had to take a loyalty oath not to the constitution or Germany, but to Hitler.

32. Myth or Fact: Adolf Hitler was elected to power. Myth or Fact: Adolf Hitler was elected to power. Hitler never received more than 37% of the popular vote in the honest elections that occurred before he became Chancellor. He would never have risen to power had the German Republic been truly democratic. Myth or Fact:Hitler’s rise to power was inevitable. Myth or Fact:Hitler’s rise to power was inevitable. Hitler’s rise to power was not inevitable. It was due to: Fatal flaws in the Weimar Republic constitution. German leaders who had a weak devotion to democracy, came in actively plotting to overthrow it. Events of the Great Depression. A half-senile President Hindenburg. Incompetent competition.

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