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« on: July 15, 2007, 03:49:11 pm »

Political consequences of the Fire

The day after the fire, Hitler asked for and received from President Hindenburg the Reichstag Fire Decree, signed into law by Hindenburg using Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended most civil liberties in Germany. As a consequence of the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Communist Party of Germany was banned on March 1, 1933 under the grounds that they were preparing a putsch. In the March 5, 1933 Reichstag elections, the Nazis increased their share of the vote to 44 percent, which gave the Nazis and their allies, the German National People's Party, who won 8% of the vote a majority of 52% in the Reichstag. The March elections were a major success for the Nazis, but were not the success they were hoping for. The Nazis had aimed to win about 50%–55% of the vote. The Nazis coerced and bribed the remaining parties, with the exception of the Social Democrats, to give them the two-thirds majority needed to pass the Enabling Act on March 27, which gave them the right to rule by decree.

Because the Communist Party had been banned , it had no representatives in the Reichstag to vote against the Enabling Act on March 23. (They would surely have voted against the Act because it gave Hitler dictatorial powers). Since the Communist representatives would have had 17% of the Reichstag votes, they would easily have prevented passage of the Enabling Act. According to one report, the Communist representatives were placed under arrest on suspicion that they were involved in planning the fire.

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