HISTORY: HITLER'S CONSOLIDATION OF POWER

1928

12 Reichstag seats

September 1930

107 Reichstag seats

July 1932

230 Reichstag seats

30 January 1933

Hitler becomes Chancellor

27 February 1933

Reichstag Fire

28 February 1933

Emergency Decree passed

5 March 1933

General Election, Nazis 44%

23 March 1933

Enabling Act passed

2 May 1933

Trade unions banned

14 July 1933

Political parties banned

30 June 1934

Night of the Long Knives

2 August 1934

Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes Fuhrer

6 million

Number of unemployed Germans

Jobs and food

Promise to workers

Protection from communism, traditional values

Promise to middle class

Protection from communism, higher food prices

Promise to farmers

Eliminate communism, crush trade unions

Promise to wealthy business owners

Abolishment of the TOV, restore Germany’s military strength

Promise to nationalists

4000

Communists arrested following the Reichstag Fire

Freedom of speech/press removed, opponents arrested without trial

Results of Reichstag Fire

SA intimidation

Helped the Enabling Act get passed

Leaders arrested, replaced by German Labour Front, workers lost power and rights

Results of banning Trade Unions

3 million

Number of SA in 1934

Second revolution

What Rohm wanted

Fuhrer

Merged roles of Chancellor and President