establishment of hitlers dictatorship

• the reichstag fire in 1933


  • a young communist marinus van der lubbe was arrested and blamed for it
  • led to passing an emergency decree that banned communists to take part in the upcoming election campaign
• enabling act 1933


  ability to pass laws without needing the approval of the reichstag or the president
• the night of the long knives carried out by hitler and the SS along with the oath of loyalty placed the army, firmly under hitlers controls
• gestapo - secret police force
• hitler banned trade unions and other political parties, germany became a one-party state