1.  Hitler’s Rise to Power
1) Weaknesses ofWeimar Govt
2) Hitler’s Abilities

2. Circumstances
O There was early O to the Weimar Government
C The Weimar Government was a C Government
D During its time in power, the Weimar Government made a few
Bad D
C The WR also lost a C Leader in Gustav
Stresemann
D The WR was badly affected by the Great D
PPOSITION
OALITION
EPRESSION
APABLE
ECISIONS
 Hitler’s Rise to Power
1) Weaknesses ofWeimar Govt

3.  Hitler’s Rise to Power
2) Hitler’s Abilities
OMMUNISM
EORGANISED

4. Political Impact

6.  Nazis did not have clear majority in parliament
 Only 3/11 cabinet ministers were Nazis
 Communists were the Nazis’ main rivals
Mmmm..What can I
do to gain more
power?
The elections
are coming up
soon!
COMMUNISTS

8. Video on
the
Reich-
stag Fire
-Think
about
Hitler’s
response
to it

9.  Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe,
was arrested, together with several other
communist leaders
 Charged with attempting to overthrow the
government

10.  Hitler convinced President Hindenburg to
establish emergency powers
 Hindenburg signed the Reichstag Fire Decree
▪ Suspended civil liberties such as freedom of the press
and freedom to assemble in public
▪ The SA arrested communists, broke up their meeting
and shut down their newspapers – effect?
▪ Those who spoke up against Hitler also beaten up

11.  March 1933 Elections
 Nazis won 44% of the vote  an increase!
Nazis
44%
+
German National
People’s Party
8%
=

12.  Hitler wanted the Enabling Act to be passed
 Would grant him the power to pass laws without
the President’s approval
▪ SA and SS men surrounded building where vote was
held

13.  Communist Party and Social Democratic
Party banned from taking part in future
elections

15.  2 May 1933
 Hitler passed law making Nazi Party the ONLY
LEGAL POLITICAL PARTY in Germany
 Nazi officials took charge of local
governments in the individual states
 Trade Unions dissolved and their leaders put
in prison

16.  Rohm was leader of
the SA
 Influential figures like
Himmler felt that he was
becoming too powerful
 Army also viewed SA as
a threat
 Hitler’s Pact
 If Rohm was removed,
Army would swear
loyalty to Hitler

18.  Rohm was actually a
homosexual
 Karl Ernst

19.  Night of the Long Knives
 SS arrested and killed Rohm and other SA leaders
 Other political opponents who angered Hitler
were also targeted
 SA’s power broken and became subject to
SS’s control
I’m now in a position
of GREAT POWER!

20.  Hindenburg died in 1934
 Hitler merged position of President with position
of Chancellor
+ =

21.  FREAK
F Fuehrer due to:
R Reichstag Fire
E Enabling Act
A All other parties outlawed
K Knives