Hitler was elected chancellor or legal official, for balance because he lost presidency to Paul von Hindenburg in 1932. Hitler with his position brought his legislative powers up for four years by forming a dictatorship and passing the Enabling act. By doing what he did with his power he made it to where his Nazi party was the only legal one in 1933. With an improving economy, Hitler claimed credit and consolidated his position as a dictator, having succeeded in eliminating challenges from other political parties for war. In November 1937, he was comfortable enough to call his top military aides together at the “Führer Conference,” when he outlined his plans for a war of aggression in Europe. Those who objected to the plan were dismissed. In 1938, Hitler led a massive attack on the Jews known as the Night of Broken Glass. 15,000 Jews were expelled from Germany. Mob violence broke out as the regular German police stood by and crowds of spectators watched. Nazi storm troopers along with members of the Schutzstaffel, or SS which was an organization under Hitler, and Hitler Youth, which was an extension of belief from Hitler about Germany being his children, beat and murdered Jews, broke into and wrecked Jewish homes, and brutalized Jewish women and children. Nazi’s took control. Jewish shops, stores, businesses, houses were destroyed and many places were burned down. About 25,000 Jewish man were rounded up …show more content…
During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing on the other side of their face. Today I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!" Adolf Hitler - January 30,