Wilhelm Frick28 February 1933
Helps implement emergency powers that allow the Nazi Government to suppress communist and socialist organisations.
Germany · Government / NSDAP Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Helps implement emergency powers that allow the Nazi Government to suppress communist and socialist organisations.
Signs the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties and permitting detention without normal constitutional protection.
Less than a month after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor the Reichstag Fire Decree invokes Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, suspending several constitutional protections on civil rights
The Reichstag Fire Decree suspends most civil liberties in Germany and is used by the Nazis to ban publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause.
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