How the Nazis use the Reichstag fire to increase their power in Germany in the years 1933-34

Authors Avatar

How the Nazis use the Reichstag fire to increase their power in Germany in the years 1933-34

The period from Hitler being made chancellor to the fire was a main part in Hitler’s path to total power. 30th January 1933 Kaiser Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. He used this power to call for another election, he was hell bent on the destruction of parliament. He believed that Germany should be controlled by one party (person).  

One week before the elections was due to be held, 27th February 1933 the Reichstag building was burnt down. Van Der Lubbe (a communist) was found in the building with a box of matches and blamed and executed for treason even though there was no real proof and some people say that Hitler started it or paid someone to do it for him. Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to let him pass the decree that gave the Nazis the power to put all dangerous opponents in prison (law for protection of the people and state). This gave Hitler the power to put communists in jail and concentration camps, which gave Nazis main opposition a weakness and made Hitler’s path to power easier.

Join now!

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.

...

This is a preview of the whole essay