In January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Within
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In January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. Within 18 months, he dismantled a democracy and forged a dictatorship. The pivotal moment arrived on February 27, 1933. The Reichstag building, Germany's parliament, burned. Hitler's government swiftly blamed communists, using the fire as a pretext to invoke emergency decrees. Civil liberties were suspended, and political opponents were arrested en masse. Weeks later, the Enabling Act passed. This law effectively transferred legislative power from the Reichstag to Hitler's cabinet, bypassing parliament entirely. With this, the democratic Weimar Republic was legally undone. Political parties were outlawed, trade unions suppressed, and dissent crushed. Germany's fate was sealed.