Hitler's Dictatorship
Richard Evans concludes his two-part account of the Coming of the Third Reich by examining how Hitler’s position, and the state of Germany, was transformed in 1933.
30 January 1933, the date on which Hitler was made Chancellor in Germany, marked only the beginning of the Nazi seizure of power. Hitler had avoided the mistakes he had made ten years previously: he had achieved office constitutionally with the support of the conservative establishment and the army, not tried to do so by force of arms against their opposition. The question now was how to convert his position in yet another Weimar coalition cabinet into a dictatorship in a one-party state.
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