# How did Hitler consolidate power?

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- The question could also be "How did Hitler / The Nazis stay in power?" or after 1933.
- Burning of Reichstag 1933 Hitler blamed the communists and arrested 4000, he rounded up many more and sent them to concentration camps.
- Election enabling act - Made by Hitler and meant that only Nazi propaganda was allowed. The Enabling act in general meant Hitler could make laws without consulting the president - .
- Night of the Long Knifes - Rohm was the leader of 4 million SA men. Hitler accused Rohn of plotting to overthrow him and killed him and 400 others. Hitler now had all the army on his side.
- When president Hindemburg died Hitler took over as president.
- \*(Hitler also had total control over schools).