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The White House Correspondent's Dinner #ABlueView Your thoughts on the event and its political repercussions?
Reichstag Fire
The Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933 was a possible arson attack on the German parliament building. The fire was blamed on a communist anarchist Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934), but it may have been the work of the Nazi party's paramilitary group the Sturmabteilung (SA) to discredit the left-wing parties before the forthcoming general election.
The chancellor Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) used the fire as an excuse to declare martial law and issue a decree that gave the police new powers of arrest and imposed significant limitations on people's civil liberties. The decree was shortly followed by the Enabling Act, which allowed Hitler to bypass the parliament and so establish the Nazi totalitarian regime.
The Nazi Party in Power
In the election of November 1932, the Nazi party (NSDAP), although performing less well than in the election of the previous July, had still won enough seats to convince President Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934) that the best candidate to form a coalition government and be appointed chancellor was Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi leader. Hitler's vice chancellor was the conservative politician of the Catholic Centre Party and former chancellor Franz von Papen (1879-1969). The minister of the interior was the Nazi Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946). The minister without portfolio was the Nazi Hermann Göring (1893-1946). Both Papen and Hindenburg were wary of Hitler but thought they could control him better if he was inside the government rather than outside it.
The consequences of the 1932 election resulted, then, in a great step forward for Hitler's plans for total power, but the Nazi party had not won a majority of seats, and so the political situation remained unstable. Hitler had no intention of sharing power and so was not content with the number of non-Nazi ministers in his government. On 1 February, yet another election was called for March 1933. Göring used the police to round up left-wing activists. The Nazi party's paramilitary wing, the SA, conducted a campaign of intimidation towards rival political parties. Something more was needed, though, to guarantee the Nazis would win a majority in parliament. The Reichstag fire produced the perfect propaganda opportunity.
Adolf Hitler in SA Uniform
Imperial War Museums (CC BY-NC-SA)
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