{"id":32,"date":"2017-11-17T18:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vc.fcstpauli-drittes-reich.de\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2017-11-17T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T17:41:20","slug":"en00056","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blog.1910-museum.de\/f3r-vc\/en00056\/","title":{"rendered":"1934 | A country marching in step"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the \u201ctakeover of power\u201d the year before, the Nazis now work on consolidating their authority further. In the 1.5 years that followed his appointment as Reich Chancellor, Adolf Hitler and his party have not only obtained control over the media and politics, but over nearly all social areas also. The last inner-party opponents are neutralised by force. Shortly after, many Hamburgers look forward to seeing Hitler at his first longer visit to the city as Chancellor. Despite an “prohibition of kitsch” issued before this visit, cushions with swastikas, Hitler figures, “F\u00fchrer drops” and handkerchiefs with his face on it are available. “It seems like the people want and need stuff like that”, a contemporary witness writes in her diary. At the same time, a new phase of persecution gets underway: besides political opponents and Jewish citizens, more and more groups of people not fitting into \u2013 in the eyes of the national-socialists \u2013 the “Volksgemeinschaft” (people’s community<\/em>) such as so-called “workshies” or homosexuals are becoming a target.<\/p>\n

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