Enabling Act of 1933 | |
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![]() Hitler's Reichstag speech promoting the bill; Because of the Reichstag fire, the meeting was held at the Kroll Opera House | |
Reichstag | |
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Citation | RGBl. I S. 141 |
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Enacted by | Reichstag |
Enacted by | Reichsrat |
Signed by | President Paul von Hindenburg |
Signed | 23 March 1933 |
Commenced | 23 March 1933 |
Repealed | 20 September 1945 |
Legislative history | |
First chamber: Reichstag | |
Introduced by | Hitler cabinet |
Passed | 23 March 1933 |
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Second chamber: Reichsrat | |
Passed | 23 March 1933 |
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Repealed by | |
Control Council Law No. 1 - Repealing of Nazi Laws | |
Status: Repealed |
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The Enabling Act of 1933 (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz, officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich'),[1] was a law that gave the German Cabinet—most importantly, the Chancellor, Adolf Hitler—the power to make and enforce laws without the involvement of the Reichstag or President Paul von Hindenburg. By allowing the Chancellor to override the checks and balances in the constitution, the Enabling Act was a pivotal step in the transition from the democratic Weimar Republic to the totalitarian dictatorship of Nazi Germany.
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