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Federal elections were held in Germany on 5 March 1933, after the Nazi seizure of power on 30 January and just six days after the Reichstag fire.The election saw Nazi stormtroopers unleash a widespread campaign of violence against the Communist Party (KPD), left-wingers, [1]: 317 trade unionists, the Social Democratic Party [1] and the Centre Party.
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 ...
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]
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.
The Saarland became a protectorate of France under the condition that its residents would later decide by referendum which country to join, and Poland became a separate nation and was given access to the sea by the creation of the Polish Corridor, which separated Prussia from the rest of Germany, while Danzig was made a free city. [159] Germany ...
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)
From his first speech in 1919 in Munich until the last speech in February 1945, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, gave a total of 1525 speeches. In 1932, for the campaign of presidential and two federal elections that year he gave the most speeches, that is 241.
Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship is a 3,400-page book series edited by Max Domarus presenting the day-to-day activities of Adolf Hitler between 1932 and 1945, along with the text of significant speeches.