This placed the Germany's parliament building unusable and instead used the Kroll Opera House. Hitler used the Reichstag fire as several uses to have the Enabling Act be passed. 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. Hitler saw the Reichstag Fire as that God gave him a signal or sign. President Paul von Hindenburg accepted Hitler's and suspended all political and civil liberties as a temporary measure for the ˜protection of the people and state'. Sadly, those temporary measures were never revoked. (The Enabling Act, 2000) On March 5, 1933 election The Enabling Act did not pass, it did not give the Nazis the majority that Hitler had hoped for in the Reichstag, but it gave them enough seats. 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. Now it was the Centre Party that concerned Hitler the most. Therefore, Hitler negotiated with the Centre Party chairman, Ludwing Kaas, a Catholic priest and offered that he would protect all of the rights of the Catholics' civil and religious liberties, religious schools, and the civil servants in the Centre Part. Fortunately, it was good enough for the Centre Party to support the Enabling Act. The only party that did not support the Enabling Act was the Social Democrats. Hitler needed two-thirds of a majority vote in order to have the Enabling Act passed. He bullied and threatened any other opposition. Another election happened on March 23rd 1933, and the final vote for the Enabling Act was 444 votes to 94, the social democrats did not vote on this election because Hitler threatened them, created fear, and made sure the social democrats did not know about this election.
