hitlers completion of pwer in 1933
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 but Hitler did not have the absolute power he desired as the Nazi Party were in a coalition government with the German Nationalists. The Nationalists had nine out of the twelve ministers in power whereas the Nazis only had three. The two Nazi ministers were Herman Goering, Minister of the Interior of Prussia, and William Frisk, Minister of the Reich and Hitler was Chancellor. Hitler called for new elections to take place on 5th March 1933 as he wanted a majority in the Reichstag for him to pass laws to give himself power. Hitler was still very weak in terms of power and had many difficulties to overcome in order to gain complete power. Hitler still did not have a majority in the Reichstag and the Nazis only had three seats in the Cabinet. The President who appointed Hitler could remove him at any time, like Hindenburg had done on many occasions. Von Papen his vice-chancellor was also out to get power for himself and wanted to get rid of Hitler and thought he could do so by pushing him into the proverbial corner. Hitler did not cont
The main weapon in the election campaign was Herman Goering , the man who controlled Prussia. He used his power to eliminate the opposition mainly Communists. Goering recruited 50,000 S.A. members to the Police. These men now had white armbands to wear over their brown shirts. The police were ordered to use force, "Police officers who make use of firearms in their duties will...benefit from my protection; those who fail in their duty will be punished..." [Source 61 Goering's order to the Prussian Police from (1)] With this in mind the Prussian police attacked the communists at first but then other opposition parties as well. The victims of these attacks were unprotected as if the police were attacking them no one could help them. One incident during the run up to the elections help the Nazis put away most of the Communist Party. This incident was the Reichstag Fire which occurred on the night of 27 February, nearly a week before the elections were to take place. The fire was supposedly started by Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist, but it is believed that the Nazis the
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