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  2. Enabling Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (lit. ' Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich ' ), [ 1 ] was a law that gave the German Cabinet – most importantly, the Chancellor – the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or ...

  3. 1933 in Germany - Wikipedia

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    5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies. 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to fly side by side.

  4. Government of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    On 30 January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. This event is known as the Machtergreifung (seizure of power). [ 1 ] In the following months, the Nazi Party used a process termed Gleichschaltung (co-ordination) to rapidly bring all aspects of life under control of the party. [ 2 ]

  5. Adolf Hitler's rise to power - Wikipedia

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    German newspapers wrote that, without doubt, the Hitler-led government would try to fight its political enemies (the left-wing parties), but that it would be impossible to establish a dictatorship in Germany because there was "a barrier, over which violence cannot proceed" and because of the German nation being proud of "the freedom of speech ...

  6. Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Nazi Germany, [i] officially known as the German Reich [j] and later the Greater German Reich, [k] was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

  7. Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

  8. Presidential cabinets of the Weimar Republic - Wikipedia

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    The president's decision to govern without the support of the Reichstag is regarded by historians as a milestone on Germany's progression from a multi-party democracy to a totalitarian dictatorship under Hitler: [1] the abolition of parliamentary government removed moderate parties from power and eroded trust among the electorate, making the ...

  9. 23 March 1933 Reichstag speech - Wikipedia

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    Despite government propaganda, the German people would increasingly recognize this failure and turn away from the responsible organizations and the Weimar Constitution. This became evident with the Reichstag election in March 1933, when the previously "terribly suppressed" National Socialists obtained a clear majority of 43.9%. Thus, the German ...