The Communist Party as the main obstacle to Hitler’s Creation of a Nazi Dictatorship

The Communist Party as the main obstacle to Hitler’s Creation of a Nazi Dictatorship

I personally think the communists were not the main threat. First in

this essay I am going to express my views on Hitler’s political

opponents I will also look at the other potential threats to Hitler

and show, which one was the main obstacle towards his creation of a

Nazi dictatorship. The other threats to Hitler were: the SA, the

democratic parties-system -the Weimar republic and President

Hindenberg.

Hitler had always hated the communists and had sworn to destroy

Communism. The coummists were another extremist group that many people

voted for. On February 27th 1933 the Reichstag building was on fire.

The man accused was Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. Hitler used

the incident to persuade Hindenburg to give him emergency powers. This

allowed Hitler to stop communist meetings. In the March 1933 election

Hitler was hoping for an overall majority, but he did not get it. So

he wanted an enabling law so that all power was in his hands and he

could establish a dictatorship. He knew the communists would not vote

for the law. So using his emergency powers he banned them from

entering the Reichstag to vote. Thus Hitler created a better chance

for having his law passed by the Reichstag. In the end Hitler got the

law passed and created a Nazi dictatorship.