Throughout history there are few people more evil and powerful then Adolf Hitler, being responsible for almost sixty million soldiers in the war and the execution of around 500,000 Jewish, homosexual, disabled and political enemies in concentration camps. But to orchestrate these acts Adolf first had to get to a high point of power, he achieved this primarily in three ways, the Reichstag fire and the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, the Enabling act and the Night of Long Knives.
The fire was lit on the 27th of February at 9 Pm 1993, and it burned down part of the Reichstag building in Berlin the capital of German(Source I). Soon after this fire Hitler addressed the German President Paul Von Hindenburg telling him that radical communists, …show more content…
In the years leading up to 1934 the Sturmabteilung otherwise known as the SA or brown shirts had gained well over 2.9 million members while the German Army only had around 100,000 soldiers due to the treaty of Versailles(source C), and the SS only had around 300 members. The SA were seen by many German citizens as careless and offensive with their violent attacks against Jews, communists and socialists, this was seen as causing civil unrest and was a bad image for Nazi party. And on the 30th of June 1934 a purge of the SA begun that lasted three whole days. Around 80-90 SA members were executed and hundreds of others were put in prison(Source J). Key leaders of the SA like Ernst Rohm were also executed. The army who had been under pressure by Ernst and the SA to join them instantly thanked Hitler and the SS's actions despite the deaths of two high ranking Generals in the purge, President Hindenburg who was now close to death, thanked Hitler as well and the majority of the German public now believed Hitler had saved Germany once again from a hostile takeover by radicals. The night of long knives helped Hitler secure his power in many ways, with the SA in shambles and under a more trustworthy leader Hitler didn't have to worry about a coup from within the SA. He had also
The fire was lit on the 27th of February at 9 Pm 1993, and it burned down part of the Reichstag building in Berlin the capital of German(Source I). Soon after this fire Hitler addressed the German President Paul Von Hindenburg telling him that radical communists, …show more content…
In the years leading up to 1934 the Sturmabteilung otherwise known as the SA or brown shirts had gained well over 2.9 million members while the German Army only had around 100,000 soldiers due to the treaty of Versailles(source C), and the SS only had around 300 members. The SA were seen by many German citizens as careless and offensive with their violent attacks against Jews, communists and socialists, this was seen as causing civil unrest and was a bad image for Nazi party. And on the 30th of June 1934 a purge of the SA begun that lasted three whole days. Around 80-90 SA members were executed and hundreds of others were put in prison(Source J). Key leaders of the SA like Ernst Rohm were also executed. The army who had been under pressure by Ernst and the SA to join them instantly thanked Hitler and the SS's actions despite the deaths of two high ranking Generals in the purge, President Hindenburg who was now close to death, thanked Hitler as well and the majority of the German public now believed Hitler had saved Germany once again from a hostile takeover by radicals. The night of long knives helped Hitler secure his power in many ways, with the SA in shambles and under a more trustworthy leader Hitler didn't have to worry about a coup from within the SA. He had also