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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.
The vital lesson of how Adolf Hitler took advantage of democracy to become a dictator. ... By the end of 1932, there were 59 “emergency decrees” compared with only five pieces of legislation ...
In 1942, the Reichstag passed a law giving Hitler power of life and death over every citizen, effectively extending the provisions of the Enabling Act for the duration of the war. [31] At least two, and possibly three, of the penultimate measures Hitler took to consolidate his power in 1934 violated the Enabling Act.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
This speech marked Hitler's second appearance before the Reichstag after the Day of Potsdam and led to a parliamentary vote that, for an initial period of four years, suspended the separation of powers outlined in the Weimar Constitution, effectively abolishing democracy in Germany. [1] The Enabling Act came into effect one day later. [1]
Hitler also thought democracy was nothing more than a preliminary stage of Bolshevism. [ 132 ] Hitler believed in the leader principle (hence his title, the Leader, der Führer ) and considered it ludicrous that an idea of governance or morality could be held by the people above the power of the leader.
Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken February 7, 1933. "Politics" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats written on May 24, 1938. It was composed during the time of the Spanish Civil War as well as during the pre-war period of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in Germany.
Dewey was one of the most successful New York governors in history, winning three consecutive elections. He was not a right-wing firebrand; some called him a “pay-as-you-go liberal” insofar as ...