The Enabling Act easily gathered the required 2/3 vote, and Wels quickly fled the country. On July 12, Goebbels gloated: “SPD dissolved. We won’t have long to wait for the total state.” ...

The Enabling Act was known at the time as “The Act for the Removal of the Distress of the People and the Reich.” The Reich’s distress originated in Germany’s surrender in World War I and ...

On March 23, 1933, just seven weeks after Hitler became chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag passed what came to be known as the Enabling Act, granting him the power to rule by decree. The vote ...

The 1933 election and Enabling Act On 5 March 1933, the Nazi Party won 44 per cent of the vote, which gave them 288 seats in the Reichstag. Hitler formed a coalition with the National Party (8 per ...