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After seizing power, Hitler and the Nazi Party combined power in the German Reich. The Gleichschaltung (coordination) of Germany laid the foundation for the darkest chapter in German history. Commentary: Successfully, Hitler, the Nazi Party, and its organizations established themselves as the sole power in the state. At the end of March 1933, the states were dissolved, and so-called Gauleiters were installed. By May, the free trade unions were crushed. The bourgeois parties eliminated themselves, and the SPD was banned. A free press no longer existed at this point. On August 2, 1934, Reich President Hindenburg died. Hitler assumed his office and from then on called himself "Führer and Reich Chancellor." At the party congress, the "Führer" was the center of a personality cult. The masses and their "God" were mutually intoxicated. Leni Riefenstahl's film "Triumph of the Will" shows how important this new propaganda tool was to the Nazis. How could all this happen? As harsh as it sounds today, Nazi terror initially only affected a minority. In the early 1930s, the majority of Germans lived like these farmers in Swabia: far from modern metropolises, without newspapers or radio, and without a telephone. Day in, day out, the same routine. It was a matter of survival. The economic crisis left six million people unemployed. Hitler and his Nazi Party knew how to sell themselves to these ordinary people as "saviors." They had an easy time of it, because many rejected the democracy of the Weimar Republic. The Gleichschaltung (coordination) of Germany laid the foundation for the darkest chapter in German history. . Usage Notice: For commercial use, please contact [email protected]. Licensing is required for public screenings or use on educational servers, learning platforms, or educational clouds. Please contact our distribution partner https://www.eduflat.de/histoclips.