ression that everyone supported Hitler. The reforming of society illustrates the domineering and manipulative role Hitler held. Hitler ensured that no person or organisation was able to interfere in his quest for a conformed German state.
From 1933 to 1935, the democratic structure of Germany was replaced with a completely centralized state. The autonomy previously exercised in many matters by the provincial governments was eliminated, and these sub national governments were transformed into strictly controlled instruments of the central Government. The Reichstag retained only a ceremonial, not a legislative, function. Hitler began to create the National Socialist state by eliminating all working-class and liberal democratic opposition. The Reichstag fire trial served as the pretext not only for suppressing the Communist and Social Democratic parties, but also for suspending all constitutional and civil rights and for instituting concentration camps for victims of National Socialist terror. Hitler's removal of opposing parties, and minor role of the Reichstag, enabled him, and the Nazi Party to take full control over every aspect of German political, social, economic and cultural life.
The creation of the "new order" enabled the National Socialists to eliminate unemployment; provide the German workers and farmers with a tolerable standard of living; enrich the elite ruling group of the state, industry, and finance; and build a stupendous war machine. As they constructed their "new order" in Germany, they pressed forward politically and diplomatically for the creation of Greater Germany. Hitler boasted that National Socialism had solved the problems of German society and would endure for a thousand years. The party resolved problems with which the Weimar Republic was powerless to cope, and that it transformed the weak republic into an industrially and politically powerful state.
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