A week before the election, the Communists were thought to have been behind the Reichstag Fire, which led to Hitler signing the Decree for the Protection of People and State to allow him to imprison large numbers of Communists and ban them from campaigning to give the Nazis a huge advantage for the election. ... To get the act passed, Hitler used the SA to intimidate members of parliament when they went to vote, he discounted Communists and Communist votes, he counted absentees as a vote in favour and made promises to the Catholic party which he did not intend to carry through. ... Following t...

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Hitler said that Marianus van der Lubbe, a Dutch, communist was the culprit. This resulted in the German people fearing a hostile take over from the Communists and therefore President von Hindenburg signed for an emergency decree for The Protection of the People and the State. Propaganda was very successful in this case as the President and the citizens of Germany feared the Communists and thanked Hitler for his decisive action, which saved their Nation from Bolshevism. ... Hitler was using peoples fears against them and by doing this he gained their trust, he then exploited their trust by ...

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Firstly, it gave him the opportunity to imprison many communist leaders, which stopped them from campaigning against the Enabling Act. It also allowed the Nazis to say that the country was in danger from the communists during the election campaign. ... After Hitler had arrested all the communist deputies and the other parties had been intimidated by the SA in order to get the Enabling Act passed, which is all Hitler needed to do. ... After Hitler caused the Reichstag Fire and blamed it on the communists, negotiated with the Centre Party, had Social Democrats hiding on the day of the election, ...

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Communist and extreme-left parties also began to pick up votes. ... Clashes between the communists and Social Democrats with the Nazis became more commonplace. ... He was anti-communist but not entirely anti-capitalist because if he had gone "anti-business- he would not have had the essential support of big business. ... In the 1932 elections, the majority of people had voted for either the communists or the Nazis. ...

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Many Germans liked the Nazis' anti-Communist views. ... Hindenburg feared the Communists growing power and was also scared of violence from the SA, so fell for Hitler's trickery along with both Von Schleicher and Von Papen. ... Many businessmen then looked to Hitler to defend them from the communists. ... Goebbels' intelligent propaganda then built on the anti-Communist and anti-Semitic views that already existed in Germany. ...

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He used this to create fear and threat by blaming the Communists for setting the building on fire. ... Upon Lenin's death, Stalin assumed political power is wanting to transform the USSR into a communist nation-state and also wanting the Soviet Union to industrialize. Stalin started his plan of turning the Soviet Union into a Communist state started when he implemented the first of many Five-Year Plans and changed their economy to command economy. ... Turning the nation-state to a communist one would not be possible if small private productions were still around because it would encoura...

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This upset many of the communists and socialists and in January 1919, many were rounded up and murdered in Berlin and Munich by German soldiers. ... Hitler gained even more support as membership increased to hundreds and eventually thousands of communist people. ...

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They fought Communist and others who tried to break up the Nazi party. ... First of all he blamed Jews, and Communist, for Germany's defeat in World War I. ... Because of this Hitler promised to rid Germany of the Germans and the Communist, and reunite the parts of Europe in which German was spoken. ...

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Hitler, blaming it as a 'communist plot' saw for a Law for the Protection of the People and State to be necessary. Hindenburg passed this law, now banning any communist and socialist activity, with over four thousand thrown in prison and the Nazi Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung – SA) communist supporters up in the streets, creating an atmosphere of fear against the Nazi Party, silencing anyone who was to speak against them. ...

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The Nazis used the fire and the decree to attack their political opponents, especially Hitler's least favorite party, the communists. ... After he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, the National Socialist German Workers' Party rounded up communists, leftist individuals, and labour leaders. ... The NSDAP abolished the Social Democrats, who numbered at about eight million voters and the Communists, who numbered at almost six million. ...

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Convinced of the necessity, indeed, the value, of violence to achieve its ends, the party soon organized the storm troops, or SA, to defend its meetings: to disrupt the meetings of liberal democrats, socialists, Communists, and trade unionists: and to persecute Jews, especially Jewish merchants. ... As the German Communist party grew in strength the charecterized as a conspiracy of international jewish financiers. ... The nazis blamed the commnistes fot many incidents and made a pretext to suppress the Communist Party. ...

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For example the Sparticast uprising was due to communists who wanted to overthrow the Weimer regime and set up a communist state. ... By 1923 prices had become ridiculous, although people who had taken out large loans (such as industrialists who were mostly against the Weimar Republic and on the side of the right since they feared the communist and their anti-capitalism) benefited, and German goods were cheap for other countries to buy which did stimulate trade and employment. ...

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Nevertheless they still carried out their sadistic and callous functions of rounding up communists, partisans, Jews and anybody or organization who were believed to be a potential threat to the Nazi state. ...

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Communist parties were pushing their labour movement on to the people that inevitably made a large portion of the middle classes shift further to the right. ... The DAP held many anti-socialist views as well as anti communist views. ...

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Nazism or National Socialism was the racist, antisemitic, and anti-communist ideology as well as the totalitarian policy of Nazi Germany. ... Of course, there were theories that connected the expansion with the willing to eliminate the communists. ...

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In the second election of 1932, Hitler would be appointed by chancellor Hindenburg, and former chancellor Von Papen as the new chancellor, who would be used as a tool to fight against the communists. When a young Dutch communist was alleged of burning down the Reichstag, Hitler took the opportunity to bully the Reichstag into passing the Enabling Act which gave him emergency powers. ...

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The rise of the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, during the 1920s was no coincidence. The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. Germany, ravaged by war, was fac...

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"In one word to describe Adolf, it would be 'angry'" states Hitler's biographer John Toland (source 6), describing the man who would become the most infamous rulers of our time. Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th April 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau Am Inn to parents Alois Schicklgruber (...

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Stresemann then acted quickly to crush a Communist rising in Saxony, and refused to get agitated by the activities of the right in Bavaria. ... The USA loaned money to Germany to pay some of the reparations back, this was seen as the Republic growing because the reparations were decreasing and also it showed that they were being accepted into the world economy, although America did have its own reasons for lending Germany money (USA didn't want Germany to be overthrown by Communists). ...

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Through conscious management, the government took control of the resources and workforce, therefore creating a true communistic economy. ... In order to rally the population around him, he blamed a fire in the Reichstag building on Dutch communists, which caused a "Red Scare ", and allowed for him to easily win the election. ...

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The "happy time", many Germans called it. With Adolf Hitler they were partners in one of histories greatest success stories. From humiliating defeat in World War 1 they had risen to become masters of Europe. They considered themselves to be the super race. Later many would say that the people were t...

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It was also never clear to me that aside from the Holocaust being the systematic attempt to exterminate the Jewish people, Hitler also wanted to exterminate "Communists, Social Democrats, liberals-and so-called antisocial elements-vagrants, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and others....

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"The 1929 Wall Street Market crash had a significant political, social and economic implications for all countries in the western world." To what extent do you agree with this statement? Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. The crash...

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Hitler outlawed the communist party in Germany which was gaining steam, and purged his own Nazi party when he was elected president of Germany, and he suitably called himself Der Fuhrer (the leader). ...

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They were taught to emphasise on external 'enemies' such as the Jews and communists, to believe in the science of eugenics to create the ideal 'perfect' race, to live up to German physical ideals and to take pride of the German race. ...

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