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Bundesarchiv Bild 102 14439, Rede Adolf Hitlers zum Ermächtigungsgesetz, illustrating event-enabling-act

For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions , which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme . Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, bei der Begründung des Ermächtigungsgesetzes im neuen Reichstag in der Krolloper am Königsplatz in Berlin! Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler während seiner großen Rede über das Georg Pahl. CC BY-SA 3.0 de.

Historical event

Enabling Act

23 March 1933

Berlin, Germany

A coerced Reichstag vote allowed Hitler's cabinet to legislate without parliamentary control, accelerating dictatorship.

Overview

A coerced Reichstag vote allowed Hitler's cabinet to legislate without parliamentary control, accelerating dictatorship. Its causes, participants and consequences connect this record to the wider Nazi Germany guide, where the event is placed in chronology rather than treated as an isolated date.

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Adolf Hitler1889–1945

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