{"id":3962,"date":"2021-02-02T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/?page_id=3962"},"modified":"2021-02-02T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T10:52:13","slug":"consolidation-of-power","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/igbis.edu.my\/the-past-changes-a-little-every-time-we-retell-it\/index.php\/ibdp-history\/authoritarian-states\/hitler\/consolidation-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Consolidation of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When arguing Hitler’s consolidation of power, ensure you distinguish between this and his maintenance of power. There is no consensus on when one ends and the other begins so it is left up to you. However, my advice is that you use the period from February 1933 to August 1934, when Hitler combines the roles of chancellor and president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1933<\/strong> February, the Reichstag burns down. Hitler persuades Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1933 <\/strong>March, the first concentration camp at Dachau opens. The Enabling Act is also passed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1933<\/strong> April, the Communist Party is banned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1933<\/strong> The Concordat with the Roman Catholic Church is signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934<\/strong> April, Hermann Goering forms the Gestapo with Heinrich Himmler taking charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934<\/strong> June\/July, The Night of the Long Knives. Rohm and other SA leaders were arrested and some executed for treason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1934<\/strong> August, President Hindenburg dies and Hitler assumes the role, becoming dictator of Germany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1935<\/strong> The Nuremberg Laws are passed, alienating the Jews from German society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1936<\/strong> September, Goering begins the Four-Year Plans. Schacht loses some of his influence on the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1936<\/strong> November, Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1937<\/strong> Japan joins the Anti-Comintern Pact<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1938 <\/strong>September, the Munich Agreement is signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1938 <\/strong>November, the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath is killed by a Jewish youth and Goebels and Hitler uses the event to launch Kristallnacht.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1939<\/strong> March, Hitler breaks the Munich Agreement and takes all of Czechoslovakia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1939<\/strong> August, Germany and the USSR sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1939 <\/strong>September, Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War in Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consolidation and Maintainance of Power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are different theories of who was responsible for the Reichstag Fire. As the Nazis used it for their own propaganda purposes, it can be argued that they started it and blamed a communist sympathiser. Indeed, Goering is reported as saying years later that he had planned the arson. However, Richard Evans<\/strong> disagrees, explaining that Van Der Lubbe had tried to set three previous buildings on fire and failed. With the Reichstag, he did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Force and Terror<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitler passed legislation to make him more powerful as soon as he became chancellor. He used force and persuasion to do this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Enabling Act: Hitler Seizes Absolute Power<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A continuing debate for Nazi Germany scholars is whether the society helped Hitler carry out his ideological policies or he used force and terror to implement them. This article below is one viewpoint from Richard Evans, a superb perspective to use in any essay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q. What does the following story about Nazi Germany tell you about the maintenance of power?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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