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March 1933: The Enabling Act

Allowed Hitler to make laws without approval from Reichstag nor reference to President

Hitler had full executive and legislative powers

Control over Federal States

March 31, 1933: Nazi assemblies replaced regional parliaments

April 7, 1933: Reich governors oversaw states

January 30, 1934: state governments subordinated to central government

Trade-unions were banned and displaced by German Labour Front (DAF).

Political parties banned/dissolved themselves, making Germany a one-party state.

Communists, SDP, Catholic Centre Party

Civil service officials were replaced by Nazis

Concordat between Nazi and Papacy to remove the church from politics.

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February 28, 1933: Reichstag Fire

Assumed to be perpetrated by the Nazis, instilled the threat of communism

March 1933: Concentration Camps

March 22, 1933: Concentration camps in Dachau, Buchenwald and other locations set up in 1933 with capacity of 5,000 people to intimidate political opponents and dissenters

100,000 arrested, including a lot of communists following the Reichstag fire

March 5, 1933: Reichstag Election

SA gangs roughed up political opposition, such as the KPD and SPD, 69 dead in the election campaign of March 1933

Enabling Act

Threatened Reichstag to vote for the Enabling Act using armed forces

Gleichschaltung

Abolition of trade unions and elimination of their leaders

Aggressive towards other political parties causing them to dissolve

Gestapo (Secret Police) for intimidation

July 1934: Night of the Long Knives

Eliminated threat from disorganized SA (3 million members)

Removed Ernst Rohm

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Nazis aimed to create a Volksgemeinschaft or 'people's community'

Censorship

Newspaper of KPD and SPD banned

Youth

Indoctrinated through education

Hitler Youth movement

Women

Removed from career and education opportunities

Conservative fashion

Encouraged to increase birth rate to empower army and achieve ‘lebensraum’

Church

‘Church Secession Campaign’ to encourage Germans to abandon their churches.

Less emphasis on religion in schools

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March 5, 1933: Reichstag Elections

Although not a majority, Hitler won the elections indicating Nazi popularity

Over half of those voting for Hitler were women.

Catalyzed by the Reichstag Fire that reduced support for communism.

German Christians movement (Deutsch Christen), that aimed to integrate Nazism and religion, attracted opposition.

100+ pastors created Confessional Church

Held support from 7000 pastors out of 17,000