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(a) Hitler's three fold plan comprised of capturing the legal authority to rule, crushing the country's political opposition and eliminating rivals within the party. In pursuit of first, he used the Reichstag fire incident to clamp down on the communists. He armed himself with emergency powers and murdered and jailed Key communist leaders and suppressed civil liberties. (b) In March 1933, the German Reichstag passed the Enabling Laws which transferred all powers from the Reichstag to the government headed by himself. (c) Next Hitler turned his anention to the rival political parties. He outlawed all existing and potential opposition institutions. By July 1933, the Nazis were the only legitimate party in Germany. (d) Opposition leaders were imprisoned, sent to concentration camps or murdered. A system of spying on the common man was introduced as Germany became a police stale. People were forced to swear their personal loyalty to Hitler and the Nazi salute became a compulsory means of greeting each other. (e) His third step was the elimination of potential rivals within the Nazi party. The growing power of the SA alarmed the German officer corps who feared that the SA would assume the position of a parallel army and threaten their position. Hitler realized he needed the regular army to consolidate his power, accused Rohm of disloyalty. On June 1934, he ordered the murder of Roehm and key SA leaders. Over the next three days hundreds of people were killed including the fonner Chancellor, Von Schleicher. A month after this President Von Hindenburg died and Hitler assumed the offices of both the President and Chancellor.
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