Enabling Act
Backs the Enabling Act as Hitler's nationalist coalition partner, expecting conservative influence to remain inside the Government.
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March
Enabling Act
Leads Centre Party support for the Enabling Act after Hitler offers assurances on church rights and federal institutions.
Enabling Act
Votes for the Enabling Act with the German State Party after pressure and misjudgement about Nazi intentions.
Enabling Act
Remains in Hitler's cabinet as the Enabling Act transforms the Government into a dictatorship with legal form.
Enabling Act
Supports the Enabling Act from inside the conservative coalition, helping give Hitler dictatorial powers through legal procedure.
Enabling Act
Represents the excluded communist opposition, whose deputies are absent after arrests, flight and repression following the Reichstag fire.
Enabling Act
Commands SA power that intimidates political opponents during the period in which the Enabling Act is forced through.
Enabling Act
Supports the Enabling Act with Catholic conservative deputies, helping provide the two-thirds majority Hitler needs.
Enabling Act
Votes with the Social Democratic deputies against the Enabling Act despite Nazi intimidation around the Reichstag session.
Enabling Act
Continues as Finance Minister while the Enabling Act transfers legislative authority from Parliament to Hitler's cabinet.
Enabling Act
Supports Hitler's cabinet as Labour Minister when the Enabling Act destroys parliamentary checks on legislation.
Enabling Act
Supports the Centre Party line in favour of the Enabling Act after negotiations with Hitler's Government.
Enabling Act
Is unable to oppose the Enabling Act in the Reichstag because the KPD has been suppressed and he is under arrest.
Enabling Act
Cannot vote against the Enabling Act because he is imprisoned after being accused in connection with the Reichstag fire.
Enabling Act
Speaks against the Enabling Act, declaring that freedom and life can be taken, but honour cannot be taken.
Fuhrerprinzip
Nazi Germany cultivated the Fuhrerprinzip (leader principle), and Hitler was generally known as just der Fuhrer ("the Leader")
Legislation
The Kroll Opera House, where the voting will be held, is surrounded by SA & SS. The Centre Party votes for the Enabling Law, the "legal" basis of dictatorship
Legislation
Thw Kroll Opera House, where the voting will be held, is surrounded by SA & SS. Hitler tells Wels that his death-knell had sounded
Reichstag
The Reichstag convenes in the Kroll Opera House
Enabling Act
Signs the Enabling Act after the Reichstag vote, allowing Hitler's cabinet to enact laws without Reichstag approval.
Enabling Act
Uses the Enabling Act after its approval to govern by cabinet law and accelerate the coordination of Germany under Nazi rule.
Concordat
Bishops withdraw their ban on membership of the Nazi party
US declines to recognize the German occupation of Bohemia & Moravia
The US "declines" to recognize the German occupation of Bohemia & Moravia. Roosevelt requests an assurance Germany will not invade any country from a list of 31
The Testament of Dr Mabuse
The Nazi regime bans The Testament of Dr Mabuse after its release is blocked.
NSDAP
German bishops withdraw their ban on Nazism
Gleichschaltung
Oversees the first coordination law that reshapes state parliaments according to the Reichstag election result.
SS
The SS is put under the command of Josef Dietrich who had selected 117 men for the SS-Stabswache Berlin, out of these three would become divisional commanders,at least eight would become regimental commanders, fifteen became battalion commanders
SS
The SS had grown from a tiny personal bodyguard unit to a formation of over 50,000 men, the decision is made to form a new bodyguard unit, picking the most capable and trustworthy SS men to form its cadre
SS
The SS is put under the command of Josef Dietrich who had selected 117 men for the SS-Stabswache Berlin, out of these three would become divisional commanders,at least eight would become regimental commanders, fifteen became battalion commanders.
April
Jewish Bank Accounts
The Nazis seize Jewish bank accounts
Jewish Boycott
Approves a national boycott of Jewish businesses, lawyers and doctors as an early public act of antisemitic Nazi policy.
Persecution
National boycott of all Jewish businesses & professions
Civil Service Law
Introduces the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, removing Jews and political opponents from public posts.
Constitution of Germany
Appoints Nazi Reich Governors to run all German states subjecting them to the Reich
Prussian Government
Becomes Minister President of Prussia, consolidating Nazi control over Germany's largest state.
Gestapo
Creates the Gestapo in Prussia, establishing a secret police instrument for surveillance and repression.
Trade Agreement
Anglo-German trade agreement
Reich Air Ministry
Goering is placed in charge of the Reich Air Ministry and the secret development of German air power
May
Day of National Labour
Stages May Day as the Day of National Labour before the regime destroys the independent trade unions.
NSDAP
Becomes a self-appointed theorist of the NAZI state. Appointed Member of NSDAP
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