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Goebbels
March 13, 1933 Prodaganda Minister
September 22, 1933 Reich Chamber of Culture formed, with seven sub-chambers bringing every aspect of German culture under Goebbel's control, eg music, film, theatre,
October 4, 1933 Reich Press Law tightens controls on the press, newspapers actively told what to write and what not to. Jewish owned newspaper were either forced out of business or bought up by Eber Verlag, the Nazi publishing firm headed by Max Amann, Reich Leader for the Press and president of the Press Chamber. The government had the right to suppress any publication in wanted and if it desired, buy it cheaply to profit from. Eber Verlag became one of the biggest publishing firms in existence.
Goering
May 1933, takes control of the new Air Ministry. Lost Interior Ministry to Frick in 1934, but retained position of Minister Presidet of Prussia. At the 1936 Nuremberg Rally the Four year plan was announced, with Goering in charge.
September, 1936 The Four year Plan inaugurated with the aim of making Germany's economy self-sufficient within four years, in effect a war economy. Imports reduced drastically, harsh price/wage controls set and enormous factories sprung up to manufacture synthetic rubber, textiles and fuel. Goering was in effect the dictator of the economy, much to the dismay of Schacht, the Economics Minister with who he fought until Schacht resigned in 1937, to be replaced by Walther Funk in 1938, over whom Goering complete control.
January, 1938 The Bomberg-Fritsch Affair removed the final remnants of the old elite (the officer corps) and left Hitler free to radicalise without any restraint. Field Marshal Blomberg was Minister of War, a post coveted by Goering who wanted total control over rearmament. In January he had married his secretary, who was discovered to have worked as a prostitute and posed for pornographic photographs. Goering presented the dossier to Hitler, who was enraged and demanded his resignation. Around the same time, General von Fritsch, the Commander in Chief of the Army, was implicated by Himmler and his aide Heydrich in a homosexual scandal. The accusations were fabricated but Fritsch was helpless to stop Hitler sending him on indefinite leave.
February 4, 1938 Hitler issued a decree making him Supreme Commander of the armed forces, replacing Blomberg and abolishing the War Ministry. Goering was promoted to Field Marshal, making him the highest ranking officer in the Reich. ThouHe had not got the position he had wanted, but he could not feel slighted since it was Hitler who had taken it ahead of him.
Himmler
In 1933 head of the 50,000 strong SS (but subordinate to Rohm until after the NoLK), April 1933 made Commander of the police in Bavaria, a year later became head of the Prussian Gestapo after a deal with Goering (Minister President of Prussia), Founded Dachau concentration camp in 1933 and supervised the expansion of a network of camps throughout Germany, by 1936 he had successfully incorporated all the police forces of Germany under his command, and merged the Kripo (criminal police) with the Gestapo to form Sipo (security police) in the same year, in 1939 he merged all the organisation under the umbrella of the RHSA (Reich Security Main Office) under Heydrich, founded the Waffen (armed) SS the same year. The gestapo had been made effectively above the law by the various emergency powers.
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These notes are aimed at A Level history students.
Originally written by blargle on TSR Forums.
