Question

How did hitler establish a totalitarian state in germany? (connexus 7 test)

Answer 1

The short answer here is that he first became the totalitarian ruler and then used his authority to make a totalitarian state. He was voted Chancellor in 1933 but he used his power to make the Reichstag pass the Enabling Act which allowed him to pass the laws without the participation of the Reichstag and thus taking the complete control of the state. He achieved this through persuasion and violence.

Answer 2

After being elected Chanceller, he embarked on a series of enactment and continued with propaganda tactics aimed at ensuring his ideology of one leader, one nation, one people was accomplished. ones the Reichtag facilitated his idea, by amending the laws, Germany became a totalitirian state and the persecution of dissident voices like the Jews begun.