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Aug

Adolf Hitler Chancellor

The financial crash of October 1929 in the United States had dramatic consequences for the economy of the Weimar Republic. Voters made the Nazi party the second largest party in the Reichstag, the German parliament, in the elections of 14 September 1930 with 6.5 million voters and 18.3% of the vote. Then at the parliamentary elections of 31 July 1932, the Nazi party obtained 37.3% of the vote and became the largest party in Germany. Hermann Goring, Hitler's friend, was elected president of the Reichstag. On 30 January 1933, around noon, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of the Weimar Repub...

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10
Aug

Adolf Hitler Fuhrer and Chancellor

On 2 July 1934, the President of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg congratulated Hitler for having eliminated several hundred of his SA militia supporters during the Night of the Long Knives on 30 June. Hindenburg's death on 2 August allowed him to temporarily assume the dual functions of Chancellor and President as provided for in the constitution. The same day the Reichstag deputies passed a law merging the two offices. Hitler was made Chancellor and Fuhrer for good in the plebiscite on 19 August 1934, which he won with a 90% majority. After full powers, he obtained absolute power without even ...

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