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B1; Hitler appointed Chancellor January 1933.B2; Nazis not have a majority in Reichstag, limited Hitler's power.
K; February 27, 1933, Reichstag building burned down. Dutch communist blamed, led to
arrest of 81 Communist Party officials and Communist Party's banning.
A; creating panic, presenting it as attack on German democracy, persuading Germans
extreme controls necessary.
A+; The Nazis, hoped for majority in the next election, failed to achieve this, relied on
another political party for control.
K: March 1933, Enabling Act passed under pressure by Reichstag, meant Hitler pass laws
without consulting parliament.
A; Gave Hitler absolute power to create laws, enabled him to eliminate opposition, critical
event during this period.
E+; In evaluation, the establishment of a totalitarian state was very important to the Nazis'
maintenance of power because it got rid of official opposition, and key events like
Hindenburg’s death in August 1934 and the loyalty of the Army meant Hitler had little
standing in his way as Germany’s Fuhrer. However, the use of fear and intimidation was
more important in the Nazis maintenance of power than the creation of a totalitarian state, as
without the fear from civil servants and judges of what would happen if they did not join the
Nazi party and support their policies, laws would not have been so easy to enforce, and fear
kept political opposition quiet.
K; The SS (Schutzstaffel) were an armed section of the Nazi Party, originally formed in the
1920s as Hitler's personal bodyguard. The SS was the black uniformed part of the Nazi
Party that blocked acts of position with highly visible acts of brutality.
A; This helped the Nazis maintain their power because any German who wasn't seen to be
loyal to the Nazis would be afraid of the violent consequences for them and their families
from the SS.
A+; However, underground opposition did continue with groups such as Communists and
socialists distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, which shows not everyone was too scared to speak
out.
K; In April 1933, the Nazis set up the Gestapo, the secret police, which relied on a network
of informants to identify opponents of the Nazis.
A; This helped the Nazis maintain their power as it created distrust amongst the German
people and made organised opposition to the Nazis power more difficult as they didn't know
who to trust.
A+; However, this was less important as the reputation of the gestapo was largely a myth as
it was poorly funded and overstretched to properly function by 1939.
K; Concentration camps were set up in order to re-educate opponents or others who did not
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