Consolidation of Hitler's power

• SA = expanded from 500,000 (Jan 1933) to 3 million (1934)
• February 1933 - SA and Stahlelm merged as auxiliary police
• 8th March 1933 - Dachau - 50,000 people
• July 1933 - 26,789 people arrested by SA
• 27th February 1933 - Reichstag fire
• Decree for the protection of the people and the state - After Reichstag fire.
• 10,000 communists arrested within 2 weeks.
• KPD party membership treated as treason
• 24th March 1933 - Enabling Act - Hitler could rule without the Reichstag for 4 years.
• Gleichshaltung - one party state

  The KPD was effectively banned.
• 22nd June 1933 - SPD outlawed
• 14th July 1933 - Law against the formation of new parties