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Hitler’s Initial Policies and the Effect of those Policies

Hitler’s Initial Policies and the Effect of those Policies. New Powers after the Burning of the Reichstag. Limits on freedom of speech/assembly Arbitrary arrests allowed Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial powers for 4 years Nazis were installed in all top positions in the bureaucracy

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Hitler’s Initial Policies and the Effect of those Policies

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  1. Hitler’s Initial Policies and the Effect of those Policies

  2. New Powers after the Burning of the Reichstag • Limits on freedom of speech/assembly • Arbitrary arrests allowed • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial powers for 4 years • Nazis were installed in all top positions in the bureaucracy • Small concentration camps constructed to hold political prisoners – ex. Dachau, est. 1933

  3. Nazi Policies • Took control of the military: • Used the SS (Hitler’s elite personal guard) to purge the SA (Hitler’s private militia before he took power, a.k.a. storm troopers and brown shirts) to placate the army • Army then swore allegiance to Hitler – Hitler devoted vast resources into remilitarizing the army • SS grew rapidly, joining with the Gestapo to frighten everyone into obeying the Nazi regime

  4. Nazi Policies • Control of all professional organizations • Only Nazi labor union allowed, strikes abolished • Independent professional associations (ex. doctors, lawyers) abolished • Took control of all publishing houses, universities and churches

  5. Nazi Policies • Jews removed from German civic life • Not allowed to work for the government • Citizenship taken away • Businesses and synagogues attacked on Kristallnacht – November 9-10, 1938 • Violently persecuted • Eventual victims of mass extermination

  6. Nazi Policies • Other “undesirabled” (according to Hitler) were also part of the genocide • Slavs • Gypsies (Roma) • Jehovah’s Witnesses • Communists • Mentally/physically disabled • Homosexuals • Anyone who opposed the Nazi regime

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