Hitler became Fuhrer

• 87 year old President Hindenburg dies on 2 August 1934
• Hitler now had the position of President abolished and that the powers of the President with by merged with those of the Chancellor to form a new position of Fuhrer which Hitler would hold as undisputed leader of Germany
• in gratitude for eliminating the threat of Rohm to the army a new oath of loyalty was now sworn to Hitler in person by everyone in the army
• in a plebiscite on 19 August 90% of voters supported Hitler as Fuhrer. The Weimar Republic had now formally ceased to exist and the Third Reich had begun