The day of the dragon
...ut of power. This was always a great problem and risk for Hitler’s tactics of getting into power. The quote ‘The powers of the President remain unaffected’ shows that Hitler was now able to do anything he pleased and that the power of the President was no longer of worry to him as it was considered useless. For example, when Hitler gained the Enabling Act he wiped out the SA and its leader, Rohm. Anything of threat to his power was destroyed. Hitler used this quote in Article 2 of the consolidation to power as a statement to his opposition that he had near enough to total control and there was nothing that anyone could do about it. b) Both sources B and C were written after the ‘Night of the Long Knives’. Source B was written by the current President Von Hindenburg a few days after the occurrence. It throws praise and complements upon Hitler. What Hitler had actually done on the night of 30th June was very unlawful and resulted in over 400 deaths. With the use of propaganda, Hitler had cleverly managed to present what had happened as a far less serious then it was, for example he claimed only 77 people died. Hindenburg was very ill at the time when he sent this, on the ve...