1. Hitler's Rise
If we protest against them with every means in our power, then we find ourselves on the path of revolution." ... Purchasing power of salaries and wages was reduced to zero. ... The burning of the Reichstag was a serious insult to the people Hitler used this common protest to get Paul Hindenburg (the ineffective and senile president of Germany at the time) to sign a decree which gave the National Socialists power and to put their political opponents in jail and concentration camps. ... In power he demanded and got an "The Enabling Act" which let Hitler make his own laws and the Germans...
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- Approx Pages: 10
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- Grade Level: High School