The Ruhr Crisis

SS = Originally Hitler's private bodyguard and 'Protection Squad' SA = Used persuasion, coercion, and force to increase Hitler's power Reichstag = Body of elected members to create laws benefiting citizens Enabling Act = Allowed Hitler to make laws without Reichstag approval

Hitler created an auxiliary police force of 50,000 men = Nationalist and Nazi meetings were undisturbed SS and SA caused chaos leading up to the 5th March election = Central government intervention was required Göring manipulated the press and radio for election influence = Only Nazi messages were broadcast Nazis appointed to local police stations = Nazi rule imposed throughout Germany before dictatorship

Election of 5 March 1933 = Week of violence and intimidation against opposition parties Enabling Act Law for Terminating the Suffering of the German People and the Nation = Hitler could make laws without Reichstag approval

<p>Leaders and parties intimidated, public meetings banned, communists arrested = Nazi and Nationalist party seat increase in Reichstag SS and SA using persuasion, coercion, and force = Aim to increase Hitler's power</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reichstag = Create laws benefiting citizens and ensure checks and balances SS = 'Protection Squad' for Hitler and initially his private bodyguard</p> Signup and view all the answers