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Adolf Hitler during the Reichstag session on 23/03/1933

During the Reichstag session on 23 March 1933 in the Kroll Opera the Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler held a speech to justify the 'Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich '(Enabling Act).

Hanns Kerrl opens the plenary session of the Prussian Landtag, 1933

The Prussian Minister of Justice and President of the Landtag Hanns Kerrl opens a session of the Prussian Diet, which goes around the adoption of the Enabling Act in Prussia. Left on the government benches: Finance Minister Johannes Popitz, Minister of Economics Alfred Hugenberg and Minister of Culture Rust.

Hermann Goering in the Prussian Landtag, 1933

Reichstag President Herman Goering holds a speech in the Prussian Landtag in the debate on the Enabling Act. Behind him, the Prussian Minister of Justice and President of the Landtag Hanns Karl. Left on the government benches: Finance Minister Johannes Popitz, Minister of Economics Alfred Hugenberg and the Minister of Culture Rust. Behind the president next to the swastika flag hang the black and white Prussian (right) and the black-white-red empire flags.

Franz Stoehr holds a speech in the Reichstag, 1933

The representative of the NSDAP Franz Stoehr holds a speech in the debate on the Enabling Act in the new Reichstag in Berlin's Kroll Opera House. Behind him, Reich President Hermann Goering.

Reichstag session on 23 March 1933

The plenum during the Reichstag session on 23 March 1933 in the Kroll Opera, while the 'Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich ' (Enabling Act) was adopted.

Wilhelm Frick speaks before the Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House on 01/30/1939

Reich Minister Dr. Wilhelm Frick in the meeting of January 30, the so-called '1st Meeting of the Greater German Reichstag 'after the Anschluss of Austria, requested the extension of the Enabling Act for another four years . On the government benches from left: Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, von Ribbentrop, right: Goebbels, von Neurath, Graf Schwerin-Krosigk, 2nd row from right: Funk, Dr.Schacht, Dr.Guertner, Darre, Rust, Kerrl, Seldte, Dr.Frank, 3rd row from right: Raeder, Brauchitsch, Keitel , Dr.Meissner, Dr.Popitz, Dr.Todt, Pfundtner. Above Dr.Frick sits Reichstag President Goering.

HItler in the Reichstag, 1933

Adolf Hitler gives a governmental declaration and demands the support of the deputies for the Enabling act, which overrides the constitutional law of the Weimar Republic and provides the government with special powers to act independently. Against the votes of the SPD (KPD member have already been arrested or scared away), all parties vote in favour for the new act.

Opening session of the new Reichstag, 1933

Hermann Göring opens the first session of the parliament in the Prussian Landtag after the burning down of the Reichstag building. In this session, the Enabling Act 'Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and Reich' is passed.

Reconstruction works at the Kroll Oper House, 1933

During the renovation works at the Kroll Opera House to house the Reichstag conferences, workers cleaned out the furniture from the assembly room.

Opening session of the new Reichstag, 1933

Reichstag session in the Kroll Opera House, 1933

Arrival of the members of the Reichstag parliament at the Kroll Opera House. Members of the KPD are already arrested. The Oper is full of SS (Schutzstaffel) and SA (Sturmabteilung) men.

Opening session of the new Reichstag, 1933

Hitler's speech on the Enabling Act, 1933

Adolf Hitler speaks to the Reichstag, 1933

Adolf Hitler speaks to the Reichstag on March 23, 1933 in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin. In this session the so-called "Enabling Act" was passed contrary to the votes of the SPD.

The opening of the Reichstag in the Kroll Opera, 1933

The Reich President Hermann Goering opens the new Reichstag in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin.