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Once the purges of the Nazi Party and German government concluded, Hitler had total control over Germany. Empowered by the Enabling Act, Hitler could begin German rearmament and achieve his aggressive foreign policy aims, which ultimately resulted in World War II.
Hitler had more success with the legislative branch of government. The Nazis first entered the 600-member Reichstag in 1926 when they secured twelve seats in national elections.
Nazi Germany was established in January 1933 with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, followed by suspension of basic rights with the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act which gave Hitler's regime the power to pass and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or German president, and de facto ended with ...
As the Nazi government faced budget deficits due to its military spending, privatization was one of the methods it used to raise more funds. [57] Between the fiscal years 1934–35 and 1937–38, privatization represented 1.4 percent of the German government's revenues. [ 58 ]
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]
Following the Nazi seizure of power and the enactment of the Enabling Act of 1933, it functioned purely as a rubber stamp for the actions of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship – always by unanimous consent – and as a forum to listen to Hitler's speeches. In this purely ceremonial role, the Reichstag convened only 20 times, the last on 26 April 1942.
The Nazi government used the emergency powers granted to it by the Enabling Act to issue this law on 31 March 1933. The law directed that the existing elected Landtage were to be reconstituted on the basis of each party's share of the votes received in the Reichstag election of 5 March 1933, that had given the Nazis nearly 44% of the vote.
At the Bamberg Conference on 14 February 1926, Hitler invoked the Führerprinzip to assert his power, [6] and affirmed his total authority over Nazi administrators at the party membership meeting in Munich on 2 August 1928. [4] The Nazi government implemented the Führerprinzip throughout German civil society. Business organizations and civil ...