President Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler on January 30th, 1933, when the latter was appointed chancellor in a coalition government. Hitler and the Nazi Party won 37 per cent of the total vote in the 1932 German election which made it the largest party in the Reichstag. In March the Reichstag conferred dictatorial powers on him for four years, but the following year, Hitler eliminated about a hundred rivals; in August 1934 Hitler was proclaimed Führer of the German Reich, head of state and commander of the armed forces, giving him dictatorial power over the country.
President Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler on January 30th, 1933, when the latter was appointed chancellor in a coalition government. Hitler and the Nazi Party won 37 per cent of the total vote in the 1932 German election which made it the largest party in the Reichstag. Shortly after his appointment Hitler used his position adroitly to achieve a dictatorship, partly by building on reports of a supposed Communist conspiracy against the state. In March the Reichstag conferred dictatorial powers on him for four years. In June of the following year, in what he called ‘the night of the long knives’, Hitler eliminated about a hundred rivals. Hindenburg died in August 1934 and Hitler was proclaimed Führer of the German Reich, head of state and commander of the armed forces, giving him dictatorial power over the country.
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