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    The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich (lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress...
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  • usually refers to the enabling act of 23 March 1933 which became a cornerstone of Adolf Hitler's seizure of power. The first enabling act is dated from 4 August...
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    abilities. By the end of March 1933, the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933 were used in the perceived state of emergency to effectively...
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  • Enabling Act, a 1922 model law for U.S. states to enable zoning regulations in their jurisdictions Enabling Act of 1933 (Ermächtigungsgesetz), a 1933...
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    Nazi Party to power with 1933 elections and the proclamation of the Enabling Act of 1933 that fully broke down all opposition. The violence was characterised...
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    Reichstag (Nazi Germany) (category 1933 establishments in Germany)
    the Nazi seizure of power and the enactment of the Enabling Act of 1933, it functioned purely as a rubber stamp for the actions of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship...
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    more drastic means to curtail political opposition and proposed the Enabling Act of 1933. Once enacted this law gave the German government the power to override...
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    Nazi eugenics (redirect from Law of 1933)
    14, 1933, allowed the compulsory sterilisation of any citizen who according to the opinion of a "Genetic Health Court" "suffered" from a list of alleged...
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    democratic institution ceased to exist following the passage of the Enabling Act of 1933 which granted Chancellor Adolf Hitler the power to draft and enforce...
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    had been repealed by the Enabling Act of 1933 and thus its various provisions and protections went unenforced for the duration of Nazi rule, and after World...
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    was the only party present in the Reichstag to vote against the Enabling Act of 1933; the SPD was subsequently banned, and operated in exile as the Sopade...
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    Adolf Hitler's 23 March 1933 Reichstag speech as Chancellor is also known as the Enabling Act speech. Due to the Reichstag chamber being unusable following...
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  • of the Enabling Act allowing the cabinet to promulgate laws by decree, rendering in practice the system of checks and balances defunct. The Act became...
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  • the German Empire and ending with the Nazi Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section...
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    chancellor on 30 January 1933. Shortly thereafter, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933 which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic...
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    use of graphic symbols, especially the swastika, notably in the form of the swastika flag, which became the co-national flag of Nazi Germany in 1933, and...
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    Reichsgesetzblatt (category Legal history of Germany)
    Reichsgesetzblatt continued to be used in Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The Enabling Act of 1933, for example, provided in its Article 3 that all laws enacted...
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    Prussian provinces, which held no administrative purpose since the Enabling Act of 1933 and were reduced to rudimentary bodies. Each Gau was headed by an...
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    Catholic Church during the rise of Nazism, being critical of Nazi ideology, but voting nonetheless for the Enabling Act of 1933 which granted Hitler dictatorial...
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    initially as the banner of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) after its foundation. Following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, this flag was adopted...
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    Führerprinzip (category Government of Nazi Germany)
    political history of Germany, the Führerprinzip (Leader Principle) was the basis of executive authority in the Government of Nazi Germany (1933–1945), which...
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    May 1933 to 1937. On 23 March, the parliament passed the Enabling Act of 1933, which gave the cabinet the right to enact laws without the consent of parliament...
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    Two weeks after the election, he was able to pass an Enabling Act on 23 March with the support of the Nazi Party, the DNVP and the Centre parties, which...
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    England Journal of Medicine. 322 (20): 1435–1440. doi:10.1056/NEJM199005173222006. PMID 2184357. The Dachau Concentration Camp, 1933 to 1945. Comite International...
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    could emigrated elsewhere. After the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Enabling Act of 1933 amended the Weimar Constitution to allow Hitler and his government...
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    21 March 1933 with the passage of the Enabling Act of 1933, and the economic hardships were significantly diminished via implementation of new economic...
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    Many of the existing organizations closed down to avoid this. These Nazi activities were a part of the Gleichschaltung (Equalization) starting in 1933. The...
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    Blood and soil (category Society of Nazi Germany)
    breakup of Junker estates for independent farmers, which was not implemented. The Reichserbhofgesetz, the State Hereditary Farm Law of 1933, implemented...
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    Nuremberg rallies (category History of Nuremberg)
    Leni Riefenstahl produced some of her best known work including Triumph of the Will (1934) and The Victory of Faith (1933), both filmed at the Nazi party...
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    power Gleichschaltung Enabling Act of 1933 Reichstag fire Zenter, Christian and Bedurftig, Friedeman (1911) The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich New York:...
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