Hitler: Consolidation and Maintenance of Power

Allowed Hitler to get rid of the Reichstag parliament and pass laws without reference to parliament, making him dictator.

• Election of 1933

• Enabling Act

• Totalitarianism

• Gleichschaltung

The election campaign of March 1933

• was an extremely violent campaign

• Nazis broke up all meetings except Nazi and nationalist meetings

• Nazis were given orders to show no mercy to communists and others deemed to be enemies of the state

• All of the above

The Reichstag Fire

• was used by Hitler it to stir up fear of communism and pretext for banning the party

• was started by Nazis

• led to minor damage to the German parliament in Berlin

• was a set back for the Nazi party

A purge of Nazi leaders by Adolf Hitler. Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization's leaders, including Ernst Röhm.

• Night of the Long Knives

• Beer Hall Putsch

• Anti-Semitism

• Stab In The Back Legend

How did the Nazis get the Enabling Law through the Reichstag?

• Hitler's private armies surrounded The Kroll Opera House with

• The SS troops surrounded the building, prevented the 81 communist from entering the building

• Catholic Centre Party decided to vote for the Enabling Act

• All of the above

All political parties except the National Socialists were banned, Germany a One-Party State like Italy and the USSR

• True

• False

Civil service was purged, all Jews and others perceived to be enemies of the state were removed

• True

• False

In Nazi Germany Communication/Propaganda was controlled by:

• Joseph Goebbels

• Ernst Röhm

• Alfred Hugenburg

• Hermann Goering

Hitler's main foreign policy aims were:

• to revise the Treaty of Versailles, unite all German-speaking people into one Reich, expand eastwards to achieve Lebensraum

• to defeat the West, stop communism, increase influence over eastern Europe

• moderate policy up to 1935. Increased activity between 1935 and 1937.

Worst aspect of Nazi system. There were ½ million Jews in Germany, small proportion of population but Hitler used them as scapegoats for everything. Many Germans were desperate they accepted the propaganda and not sorry to see them removed from their jobs as lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists.

• Police state

• Lebensraum

• Anti-semitism

• Stufenplan