Adolf HitlerBy: Lema Ghailan

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Political

Reichstag Fire

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Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State of 28. February 1933

The Reichstag Fire: View of the Destroyed Plenary Hall (February 28, 1933)

The tribunes of Berlin’s Reichstag lie in ruins, Feb. 28, 1933.

General Election March 5 1933

A 1933 Berlin ballot, with the Nazi party on top, then the Social Democrats

33 of 35 parliamentary districts won by the Nazi Party,2 (Cologne-Aachen, Koblenz-Trier) by the Centre Party

On March 5th 1933, Germany held an election for a new government party for a new mandate. Since the Nazi party recieved 44% of Germany’s vote, Hitler arrested Communist deputies with his emergency power, causing the Nazi party to have the majority and therefore win the election. Herman Goering then became the speaker for the Reichstag.

Members of the Nazi party.

The front page of the March 24, 1933, edition of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. The headline reads: "Enabling Act adopted with 441 votes against the 94 votes of the Social Democrats. A second speech by the Chancellor in the evening session of the Reichstag. Approval of the Reichsrat – Today promulgation by the Reich President."

Enabling Act March 23 1933

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The Enabling Act

Hitler Speech on Enabling Act 1933

Gestapo

Gestapo Headquarters in Berlin, located at No. 8 Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse - a frightful address from 1933 onward.

Gestapo was also present in concentration camps as here in Lager Nordhausen, a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora KZ complex.

Members of the Gestapo Occupy and Search the Berlin Headquarters of the German Communist Party (February 23, 1933)

Transition of power in April 1933 as Göring (right) yields control of the Gestapo to Himmler.

German citizens are stopped and searched by plain-clothes and uniformed police in March 1933 under the pretext they might be concealing weapons.

Law Against the Formation of Parties June 14 1933

The Toronto Anti-Fascist Strike, 1933

Under SA guard, a group of leading Socialists arrives at the Kislau camp, one of the early concentration camps. Local Social Democratic party leader Ludwig Marum is fourth from the left in the line of arrivals. Kislau, Germany, May 16, 1933.

Hitler shaking hands with Hindenburg before his death.

Night of The Long Knives June 30th 1934

Röhm with Hitler, both wearing the SA uniform in 1933

David Low, The Salute with both hands now (3rd July, 1934)

Three of the architects of the purge: Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, and Hess.

Hitler and Rohm, 1933

Hitler Becomes FuhrerAugust 19th 1934

President Hindenburg dies, August 2nd, 1934

Members of the regular Germany Army swear the oath of allegiance to the Führer Adolf Hitler.

Banner with the campaign message "Yes to the Führer!"

Economic

Autarky

The I.G. Farben Company Presents its Synthetic Rubber ("Buna") (1936)

Hitler with Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht (May 5, 1934)

Hitler Visits a Thyssen Factory in the Ruhr Region (1935)

Christmas Celebration at Mercedes-Benz, with German Labor Front Bulletin Board in the Background (1938)

Public Works

Grave of a labour serviceman on the Eastern Front

National Labor service Woman's Rank Badge

Labour servicemen resting

Rearmament

A squadron of Hienkel 111's, Germany's front line bomber.

The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament

German propaganda, which says, “This war will be our victory!

Hitler's war economy seen in full swing as Junkers Ju-88 high-speed medium bombers are mass-assembled - each capable of carrying about 3,000 pounds (1500 kgs) of bombs.

German Labour FrontMay 2nd 1933

One of Hitler's "model factories." A swastika embedded in a cogged wheel decorates its facade, as does the slogan of the German Labor Front: "We're Marching with You."

"Strength through Joy" – Cruise to Madeira (1938)

Robert Ley was given the task of forming the Labour Front (DAF), the only union organization allowed in the Third Reich. Wages were now decided by the Labour Front and compulsory deductions made for income tax, and for its Strength through Joy programme.

Social

Youth Organizations

A common scene in the German countryside--Hitler Youths on a brisk military-style hike, singing one of the numerous HJ or Nazi marching songs they've memorized.

The Führer himself inspects an assembly of senior Hitler Youths.

The Hitler Youth movement included girls, the Bund Deutscher Mädel. The goal was to prepare them for home and motherhood. This legend reads in the old German script, "Alle 10 Jährigen zu uns" which means "All 10 year olds (come) to us.".

ReligionConcordat with the Pope

Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, papal nuncio to Germany, talks with Hitler at a formal reception in Berlin in Jan. 1936.

Hitler greets Msgr. Joseph Tiso, Slovakian Chief of State, Papal Chamberlain and Roman Catholic priest, at Hitler's field headquarters on the Eastern Front, October, 1941.

Propaganda

In Nazi Germany, Dr Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. Goebbels official title was Minister of Propaganda and National Enlightenment.

The German crowd gives the Nazi salute during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.

"Give me four years' time", photomontage poster, 1937.

KristallnachtNovember 9-12 1938

The interior of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin after Kristallnacht

Shop damageA ruined synagogue in Munich after Kristallnacht

Nuremburg Laws1935-1939

Poster used by Nazi Party to explain regulations of Nuremberg Laws

Germany, A bench with the inscription “Only for Jews”

Title page of RGB I No. 100 proclaiming the laws, issued 16 September 1935