ABSTRACT

HITLER became Chancellor on January 30, at the head of a government of national concentration in which the old ultra-conservative Party, the Nationalists, held a reassuring majority. He had, however, control over the Ministry of the Interior and the Prussian police, and had further the prospect of Reichstag elections on March 5, which he had made a condition of his participation in the government. He set to work to consolidate his position, and to make sure that the elections would bring the victorious smashing-through of the National-Socialist Party.