rise of hitler

• Enabling Act - 1933


  Gave Hitler sole power for 4 years

  passed with 2/3rd of the vote

  votes were forced in favor
• 1920 German workers party outlines their 25 point program, includes autarky, abolishing treaty of Versailles and Fuhrer
• 1925 the SS created to intimidate people into supporting Hitler
• Hindenburg becomes president of Germany 1925
• wall street crash 1929 - USA recalled their loans and unemployment in Germany reaches 2.5 million
• 1930 Nazis win 107 seats
• June 1932 


  Von Papen becomes chancellor and rules by emergency decree
• july 1932


  nazis win 230 seats
• November 1932 


  Nazis win 196 seats
• December 1932


  Von papen lost support and was replaced by Von Schleicher
• Von Papen convinced Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor and himself vice chancellor

  Hindenburg agrees and Von Schleicher is removed from power
• Hitler made chancellor January 30th 1933
• july 1930


  Bruning is chancellor and cuts unemployment pay, he did not have support so Article 48 was used

  people were annoyed and turned to Nazis or communism

  Hindenburg dismissed Burning and replaced him with Von papen
• unemployment reaches 6 million in January 1933
• Reichtag fire Feb 1933


  arson attack on Government building used by Nazis to claim communists were a huge threat

  led to the Reichstag fire decree
• Reichstag fire decree 1933


  suspended most civil liberties including freedom of press and expression
• Editors law 1933


  the regime required editors to not publish anything critical and banned Jews from working in publication
• 1933 boycott of Jewish businesses, Jews banned from public places and government jobs
• concordant 1933 July


  Church and Hitler signed agreement to say out of each others affairs
• opposition parties banned 1933
• Night of long knives 1934


  SA members wanted Hitler to carry out the socialist agenda and military general Rohm wanted SA in charge of army

  Hitler saw this as a threat and SS killed 400 SA members including Rohm

  this is a turning point in consolidation of power and elimination of power
• August 1934 Hindenburg died -

  Hitler declared himself jointly president, chancellor and head of the army
• Nuremberg laws 1935


  Jews no longer have German citizenship

  Jews have no political or civil rights

  marriage between Jews and Germans outlawed
• 1936 Jews banned from being doctors
• 1938 Jews have to carry ID cards and wear a yellow star
• August 1938 Kristalnacht 


  20,000 Jews sent to concentration camps

  Jewish businesses houses and synagogues destroyed
• 1933 women banned from professional work
• abortion and contraception banned 1933
• Jews banned from schools 1938
• youth groups made mandatory 1936
• catholic schools shut down 1939
• 1934 Reich church set up and mein kampf replaced the bible
• 1934 confessors church set up as opposition to the Reich church

  800 pastors sent to concentration camps
• Niemolloer 


  formed the confessors church and was sent to a concentration camp
• 1933 'sterilization law'


  400,000 disabled people sterilized by 1939
• Goering 1936 - 4 year plan 


  aims:

  be ready for war

  reduce unemployment

  increase standard of living

  rearmament

  Aurtarky
• Goering 1936 - was his plan successful


  1939 1/4 of Germans employed in arms

  income rose 50% between 1933 & 1939
• speer becomes minister of Armaments and production 1942


  he ensured all civilian goods were stopped and factories only made goods that would help the war
• military expenditure doubled between 1939 and 41

  arms production took nearly 7 years to increase
• Schacht minister of economy 1934