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Reichstag Fire
The reichstag building is set on fire by a Dutch Communist, van der Lubbe -
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Adolf Hitler
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General Election
Only 44% of people vote for nazis, who win 288 seats of the Reichstag. -
Enabling Act
Hitler gets the right to make his own laws. The Storm Troopers intimadate all non-nazi deputies. -
Local Government
The government is reorganized. The country is carved up into 42 Gaus, which are run by a Gauleiter. These Gaus are separated into areas, localities and blocks of flats run by a Blockleiter. Hitler sets up the Gestapo. -
Trade Unions
Trade unions are abolished and their leaders are arrested. -
Concordat
Hitler makes an agreement with the Pope who sees him as someone who can destroy communism. He can now take over political power as long as he leaves the church alone. -
Political parties
All political parties except for the nazis are band. -
People's Courts
Hitler sets up the Nazi people's courts where judges have to swear an oath of loyalty to the Nazis. -
Night of the Long Knives
Some SA leaders are demanding that the Nazi party carry out its socialist agenda, and that the SA take over the army. Hitler mustn't annoy the businessmen or army, so the Storm troopers murder perphaps 400 of the SA member, including their leader and other opponents of Hitler. -
Führer
Hindenburg dies, so Hitler declares himself jointly president, chancellor and head of the army.
