DEPTH STUDY GERMANY: HITLER CONSOLIDATES HIS POWER - TIMELINE

1. DEPTH STUDY
NAZI GERMANY
HITLER DOMINATING
GERMANY BY 1934
HITLER CONSOLIDATION
TIMELINE
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2. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
30 JANUARY 1933 - CHANCELLOR
• Hitler is appointed Chancellor.
• Only three Nazis in the government.

3. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
27 FEBRUARY 1933 – REICHSTAG FIRE
• Probably started by Dutch communist Van Der Lubbe
acting alone.
• Hitler blamed it on the Communist Party.

4. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
28 FEBRUARY 1933 – DECREE OF THE
REICH PRESIDENT
• The decree of the Reich President for the protection of the
nation and the state.
• Hindenburg suspended all civil rights.
• People could be held indefinitely in protective custody.
• Used to repress the Communist Party.

5. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
5 MARCH 1933 – ELECTIONS
• Nazi opponents intimidated.
• Nazis won 44% of the vote.
• Their allies, the Nationalists, gained 8%.

6. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
24 MARCH 1933 – ENABLING ACT
• The Reichstag met in the Opera House.
• Members were intimidated by SA and SS.
• Gave emergency powers to the government to issue
decrees and rule without the Reichstag for four years.

7. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
7 APRIL 1933 – LAW FOR RESTORATION
OF CIVIL SERVICE
• It was a law for restoration of the professional civil service.
• It was the first anti-Jewish measure.
• Jews and other “aliens” were purged from the
administration, courts, schools and universities.

8. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
1 MAY 1933 – MAY DAY HOLIDAY
• International Labour Day was made a public holiday.
• The day after, trades union offices were abolished.

9. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
14 JULY 1933 – LAW AGAINST THE
FORMATION OF NEW PARTIES
• Germany become a one-party state.

10. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
12 NOVEMBER 1933 – NEW ELECTIONS
• Nazi Party won 92% of the vote.

11. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
JANUARY 1934 – LAW FOR
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE STATE
• State governments overthrown and replaced by Nazi
governors (Gauleiter).

12. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
30 JUNE 1934 – NIGHT OF THE LONG
KNIVES
• SS shot many SA leaders and others (Rohm and
Schleicher) seen as a threat.

13. CAMBRIDGE IGCSE – DEPTH STUDY: GERMANY
2 AUGUST 1934 – DEAD OF PRESIDENT
HINDENBURG
• Hitler became Fuhrer (Chancellor and President), de facto
leader of the entire country.
• Germany was now a dictatorship.