Posted on Feb 1, 2020
The Enabling Act: Hitler Seizes Absolute Power - History
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The Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933 gave the German Cabinet power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag and the Reichsrat, the legislative bodies of the Weimar government. It gave Adolph Hitler complete and absolute power.
The passage of the Enabling Act required Hitler to gain support from a quorum from a super-majority of the entire Reichstag; this process was made easier by nearly all Communist and some Social Democrat deputies being arrested under the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties after the burning of the Reichstag under the auspices of the beginning of a Communist revolution. But to win the rest of the votes, he needed to convince religious parliamentarians that Germany’s religious life would be kept secure and that its civil society would not vanish.
The passage of the Enabling Act required Hitler to gain support from a quorum from a super-majority of the entire Reichstag; this process was made easier by nearly all Communist and some Social Democrat deputies being arrested under the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties after the burning of the Reichstag under the auspices of the beginning of a Communist revolution. But to win the rest of the votes, he needed to convince religious parliamentarians that Germany’s religious life would be kept secure and that its civil society would not vanish.
The Enabling Act: Hitler Seizes Absolute Power - History
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I had to study this whole period of German Political History in College...it made me mad, sad, and upset. It still does. And yet over half the Developed Nations are starting down this same path...if you don't know your History...you are doomed to repeat it.
Folks don't know how tenuous our hold on Civilization is...and people tend to think that they can control Pandora's Box after they open it...Yugoslavia wasn't enough of a lesson? Brexit is going to unravel over the next year...and I am no Spook and my Analytical Abilities are compropable to those of a Pepsi can or rock; but mark my words, it is much more likely to go South in the Next year than upwards and foreword.
And another decade of ugly History will have new war movies to make.
Folks don't know how tenuous our hold on Civilization is...and people tend to think that they can control Pandora's Box after they open it...Yugoslavia wasn't enough of a lesson? Brexit is going to unravel over the next year...and I am no Spook and my Analytical Abilities are compropable to those of a Pepsi can or rock; but mark my words, it is much more likely to go South in the Next year than upwards and foreword.
And another decade of ugly History will have new war movies to make.
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