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A referendum would also be held if 10% of eligible voters proposed an initiative. [14] On 14 July 1933, the German cabinet used the Enabling Act to pass the "Law concerning the Plebiscite", [15] which permitted the cabinet to call a referendum on "questions of national policy" and "laws which the cabinet had enacted". [3]
There has never been a referendum of this type, although there was an argument in that direction during German reunification. The other type requires a regional public vote in case of restructuring the States ( Neugliederung des Bundesgebietes , "New Arrangement of the Federal Territory") which led to a number of effectless referendums to ...
1926 German property expropriation referendum; 1929 German Young Plan referendum; 1931 Prussian Landtag referendum; 1933 German League of Nations withdrawal referendum; 1934 German head of state referendum; 1935 Saar status referendum; 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum; 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum; 1955 ...
In a referendum held in November, 95 per cent of voters supported Germany's withdrawal. [ 56 ] In 1934, Hitler told his military leaders that rearmament needed to be complete by 1942, as by then the German people would require more living space and resources, so Germany would have to start a war of conquest to obtain more territory. [ 57 ]
The relative lack of support in Hamburg in 1933 prompted Hitler to declare a "virtual national holiday" on 17 August 1934 so that he could address the German people directly over the 4.3 million registered radio sets. [26] The referendum itself, as well as all efforts to make Hitler head of state, violated the Enabling Act.
President Donald Trump announced Monday he is withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, a significant move on his first day back in the White House cutting ties with the United ...
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.
In August 1934, Hindenburg died, and Hitler seized the president's powers for himself in accordance with a law passed the previous day (Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich), an action confirmed via the 1934 German referendum later that month. Article 2 stated that the president's powers were to remain "undisturbed" (or ...