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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 ...
The Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People [1] (German: Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutze des Deutschen Volkes) issued on February 4, 1933 by German President Paul von Hindenburg severely limited press freedoms and gave the Nazi Party far-reaching powers.
Hitler's Thirty Days to Power is a 1996 history book by historian and Yale professor Henry Ashby Turner.The book covers political events in Germany during the month of January 1933, which culminated in the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor on January 30.
A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders. [153] Richard Overy estimated in 2014 that about 353,000 civilians were killed in Allied air raids. [ 154 ]
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 ...
20 March – Michael Pfleghar, German film director and screenwriter (died 1991) 7 April – Johannes Schaaf, German film and theatre director (died 2019) 15 May – Ursula Schleicher, German politician and harpist; 29 May – Helmuth Rilling, German choral conductor; 8 June – Ernst W. Hamburger, German-born Brazilian physicist (died 2018)
The Law on the Trustees of Labour (German: Gesetz über Treuhänder der Arbeit) was a measure enacted by the government of Nazi Germany on 19 May 1933 that established the office of Trustee of Labour to regulate labour relations in Germany.
Lebensraum became the principal foreign-policy goal of the Nazi Party and the government of Nazi Germany (1933–45). Hitler rejected the restoration of the pre-war borders of Germany as an inadequate half-measure towards reducing purported national overpopulation. [45]