hi in this video we're going to wrap up everything we've just learned about in the previous four and we're going to really focus on what we've been learning about in this first unit looking at the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship now this unit is the first of five that we're going to cover in this course looking at living under Nazi rule and unit 1 covers Hitler in the Nazi Party in January of 33 establishing the dictatorship January 33 to July of 33 and achieving total power July 33 to August 34 and if been watching the previous four videos you should have by now covered this we started looking at Nazi ideology we also will have looked at Nazi leadership in 1933 in the second set sorry in the third video we looked at the Reichstag fire and how that enabled Hitler to remove the communists we looked at the creation of the enabling act and how that enabled Hitler and the Nazis to remove German democracy and we looked at glide Shelton bringing the Germans into line in the fourth video we looked at how Hitler and the Nazi Party achieved total power from July of 33 talkest to 34 we looked at this event called the night of the Long Knives where Hitler got the SS to remove the threat from the SA and the threat from the conservative politicians and then finally we looked at the death of Hindenburg in their video if you're unsure about any of those things that are on the right hand side I'd stop this video right now and I'd go back and watch the others if you're happy that you understand all of those things are please keep watching now this first unit really is the story of Hitler and the Nazi Party and its really bookended by two events the unit starts in January of 1933 which is that picture there where Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany at that point Germany was a democracy fast forward the story on a little bit to August of 1934 and it's really important we remember this is a year and a half and at that point Hitler is Fuhrer or leader of Germany Germany's our completed theater ship no democracy no real threats to his power now the really big historical debate here and the big historical question is why is Hitler able to make that change so quickly we're talking a year and a half a year and a half where you go from democracy to dictatorship and so the big question is why is he able to make that change so quickly if you want to probably a really good opportunity now would be to stop this video and jot down any of those big factors that you can think about that enabled Hitler and the Nazi Party to make that change from democracy to dictatorship so quickly what big factors can you think of pause the video now make a few notes right let's keep going now the sort of question at the example they're going to ask you about this is exactly around these question around this point about how and why were they able to make that change so quickly this is an example of the sort of question that OCR might ask you Hitler's position of total power by August the 34 was achieved mainly through the use of violence so one of those big factors that I'm sure you've just died down was violence so was it violence that enabled Hitler to take to Germany from a democracy to dictatorship now there's a lot of evidence to prove that it was violence but there's also a lot of evidence to prove that there were other factors and with an 18 mark question like this it's really easy in terms of structure obviously you have one paragraph or one section that looks at total power was a chief through violence a sectional paragraph that agrees with this NSA question above you also need a section or a paragraph that obviously is the other side of the argument in this case there wasn't any power wasn't achieved through violence it was other factors now again it's probably a really good opportunity here pause this video see if you can note down any evidence for either side of the argument can you think of any other that total power was achieved through violence and can you think of any evidence that it wasn't achieved through violence feel free pause it now copy out this little essay plan add in your points now you should have done your essay plan by now I'm gonna give you some points that I think are the most important here now if you remember an 18 marker for OCR you only really need four points I'm gonna give you five and you can decide which one of those you'd like to get rid of so firstly let's go through some evidence that power was achieved through violence to me there are two really big points you can make certainly the night of the Long Knives where the SS murdered the SI leadership and murdered some of the conservative politicians is a clear example of Hitler taking power through violence it's the best example of this but we could also say and argue that the use of the SA and the SS to intimidate the German people through glacial tone was also an example of him intimidating the German people into suppression through violence things like the book burning were the boycott of the Jewish shops are really clear examples to me of violence being used to scare the German people into submission but there's also some evidence that actually that total power was not achieved through violence I think you could really are easily argued actually one of the reasons why Hitler was able to take power without violence was luck the Reichstag fire burning down was incredibly lucky for the Nazis I'm not a massive conspiracy theorist so I'm not convinced actually the Nazis did try and burn it down themselves I think it was just something where they were very lucky to have a big event that they could use in the way that they did to remove the Communists also really important that you consider law or legislation there was some really really important legal documents some laws that were made by the Reichstag that enabled Hitler and the Nazis to take loads more power the most important of those by far was the enabling act which meant Hitler and the Nazi Party could make any law they wanted without the Reichstag but there are lots of other laws as well for example the art ACTA ban new parties meant they were the only party you could also argue as well that the appeal of Nazi ideology and the charisma if the leaders at the time of the crisis mean actually that the German people wanted them to take more power now if I was going to look at these five pieces of evidence I can only write about four I might knock out that last fifth so then I end up with an essay with these two points on one side and those two on the other and I think it'd be a really good opportunity at this point to stop and write that essay out and remember the essay needs a brief introduction where you give your judgement about the question so do you think violence was more important than not violence you have one paragraph or section on how total power is achieve through violence one paragraph or section on how it was not achieve through violence and then a conclusion where you try and give your clinching argument where you weigh everything up there's no right or wrong answer here either some historians do believe that total power was a chief through violence other people emphasize the other factors so it's entirely up to you see what you can do with an essay