Nazi consolidation of power

  • HItler becomes Chancellor

    HItler becomes Chancellor
    After a year of demand to become Cancellor, Hitler gets the place by dealing with German aristocrats.
  • Goering and the SA and SS

    Goering orders the local police to co-operate with the SA and SS.
  • The Reichstag fire

    The Reichstag fire
    4000 Communists and other Nazi opponents get arrested in the same night
  • Hidenburg issues the Emergency Decree

    Hitler takes over the regional governments
  • The Reichstag elections

    The government takes control of the media to intimidate the opponetns.
  • Goebbels take control of the media

    Goebbels take control of the media
    The Goebbles appoint head of Ministry for propaganda.
  • The Enabling Act.

    The Enabling Act allows HItler to make decrees without involving the president.
  • "Alien elements"

    Jews and other opponents of the Nazis are taken out of the Civil Service administation, the court, and schools.
  • Workers are given the May Day holiday

  • After the May Day Holiday,

    After the May Day Holiday,
    all workers belonged now to the DAF (German Labour Front)
  • Employment Law:

    a programme of public works to create jobs.
  • Law against the formation of new Parties.

    Germany becomes a one-party state.
  • Agreement with the Catholic Church.

    The church is banned of political activities.
  • The death of Hidenburg

    The death of Hidenburg
    After the president´s death, HItler becomes Fhürer.
  • ALL state governments are taken over.

  • Night of the Long Knives.

    Night of the Long Knives.
    On the weakend of 29-30 June, the Ss brokes into the houses of Röhm and other leading figures of the SA, and arrest men. In that weakend, over 400 people were excecuted.