18 Major Events During Adolf Hitler's Rise to Power - History Collection
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Born in Austria-Hungary on April 20, 1889, the man who became the Fuhrer experienced a difficult and somewhat peripatetic childhood, beaten by his father, doted on by his mother, and after the death of a younger brother from measles became withdrawn from friends and classmates and rebellious to his father…

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  • 2- Hitler appealed to the masses by presenting scapegoats for their problems
  • 6-Anti-Jewish actions gained momentum during the depression
  • 7-The Nazis achieve a plurality in the Reichstag
  • 9- Hitler moves to consolidate political power through the passing of the Enabling Act, granting temporary authority to the Chancellor and the President to enact laws exclusive of the democratic process
  • 10-Hitler rules by decree for the next four years
  • 11-Nazification of the civil service was critical to Hitler’s power
  • 12-The Nazi “co-ordination” effort to control the minds of Germans
  • 14-German rearmament preceded Hitler’s accession to power
  • 15-The creation of the Gestapo and the crushing of the SA leadership
  • 16-Hitler controls nearly all aspects of German society
  • 17-Hitler’s territorial ambitions begin in the Rhineland
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    15 days ago

    These are the 2 most concerning paragraphs and what they lead to:

    Under German law, the Reichstag was allowed to pass a measure known as an Enabling Act, granting temporary authority to the Chancellor and the President to enact laws exclusive of the democratic process, as a form of martial law during a national emergency. Hitler and the Nazis argued that Germany was on the verge of civil war with the communists, and Hitler used the fire and the propaganda value accusing the communists of setting it to persuade Hindenburg to enact such a law suspending civil liberties. Following Hindenburg’s acquiescence, communists were banned from the Reichstag and mass arrests of those suspected of being communists began throughout Germany. With the communists deposed from the Reichstag the Nazis went from being a plurality to a majority, and as head of the Nazi party Hitler became the de facto dictator of Germany.

    In 1930s Germany the civil service included not only government workers, but also teachers and professors, officers of the courts including judges and prosecutors, and many other professionals. In April 1933 the Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service was decreed, though with some objections from Hindenburg, which effectively banned Jews from the German civil service, and forced the removal of thousands of former civil servants from their positions. Many, in order to retain their posts, joined the Nazi Party. Others were forced into retirement or simply dismissed. The decree was later supplemented with a series of related ordinances which forced Jews and others known to have opposed National Socialism out of schools, under the guise of relieving overcrowding.