When Hitler was made Chancellor, he was also leader of the largest party in the Reichstag, but did not have the overall majority. He only had two other Nazis (Frick and Goering) in his Cabinet. Few people could hang on to power.

Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Rohm, Herman Goering, Rudolph Hess, Heinrich Himmler

Was in charge of propaganda (newspapers, posters and other media) It was his job to make the Nazi's look good, he made Hitler look like a god.

One of the two Nazis in the 1933 cabinet. He was minister of the interior.

Leader of the SA - Brownshirts - There were 400,000 committed brownshirts by 1933

No. 2 in the Nazi party. In 1933 he formed the Gestapo.

No. 3 in the nazi party. He was deputy leader and an excellent organiser.

Leader of the SS - Blackshirts -

27th February 1933

Maximus de Van Lubbe, A dutch communist.

All communists were banned from the Reichstag.

The Nazis still only got 44.5% of the votes and got 288 seats yet this was still short of the overall majority.

It gave Hitler the power to rule and pass laws without the rule of the Reichstag for four years.