HISTORY 2DF3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reichstag Building, Compulsory Sterilization, Nazi Propaganda
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Street fighting between kpd & nazi militants. Bruning"s coalition: not sympathetic to hitler and nazi, leader of political coalition party. Rule by decree (article 48 of the constitution) from 1930: this is because of political crisis and upheaval. Nazi vote declines due to economy improving in germany people now believe in current government and democracy. Hitler agrees to chancellor jan. 1933. Hitler does not have absolute but still uses contistion. Burning of reichstag building: feelings hitler was involved, nazi coercion and intimidation. People are more afraid of right wing coalition. Nazis prevented people voting storm trooper lines. Storm trooper lines people couldn"t physically vote. They used propaganda our last hope played on depression economic hard times of germans. People voted for him who were afraid of communists. Days after government dissolved all other political parties. Formation of concentration camps (prison camps: labour leaders, political party members, trade unionisits.