Germany: From Democracy to Dictatorship

Which even do you think was most important in the transformation of Germany from democracy to dictatorship? Why?

I think that the burning of the Reichstag was the most important event. I think this because Hitler used this event to say that Germany is in a national crisis or emergency. This gave Hitler the power to create the enabling act which let him do pretty much whatever he wanted. This act led to all of the terrible things that Hitler did. He took away free speech, he targeted Jews and homosexuals and nobody could stop him. He arrested 10,000 people without telling them why they were being arrested. Because of all these things the government was no longer a democracy.

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