The Nazis told the people of Germany that it was the communists plot to burn the Reichstag and other stories that made the communists sound bad so that nobody voted for them.
On the 5th march 1933 the elections took place and the Nazis won 288 seats in the Reichstag this was the most they had got but Hitler was not happy with this as it was not majority, he came up with the idea to ask the nationalists with the Nazis and with both the amounts of seats joined hey had won over half the Reichstag.
They vote for the enabling act which gives Hitler the power to make laws without approval of anyone else. However this law was only for four years he used his privet army to bully people into voting for the enabling law to be passed. It also let Hitler ban all other parties.
Hitler then used gleichschaltung (bringing into line) this is when Hitler made all state counsels under Nazi control so that everywhere was under total Nazi ruling. He abolished trade unions and put new ones in place with Nazis in charge.
Hitler needed the SA, the SA was made by Hitler. He used them to gain power of Germany. Most of them were nothing other than thugs and criminals used in the threatening and bullying of winning control of the streets and stopping there opponents plans and activities. But once Hitler had gained this control he dint want to be associated with them as they were brutal, and Hitler didn’t want this opinion out on him, he wanted the other governments and people to think he had won power legally also the German army wasn’t very happy with the SA and it was damaging Hitler’s relation ship with the army and as the German army was stronger and had more resources, Hitler naturally chose that it was the SA that had to go. On the night of 30 June 1934 she SS went round on took the SA’s head, Ernst Rohm, and all other SA leaders and executed them all by firing squads because of direct orders from Hitler.
The president Paul von Hindenburg died 2nd august 1934. This gave Hitler the opportunity to seize power of Germany and he made him self president and over took the Reichstag. he promised to rip up the treaty of Versailles and restore Germany to its rightful place and power in the world and that he would get rid of depression and make lots of new jobs for the workless he blamed the Jews and communists for all of Germany problems aka the loss off the war, and the depression.