Nazi power consolidated within months via invasive surveillance and bans

Evidence

In March, the Nazis awarded themselves new powers to arrest suspects and search homes at will. They created laws that allowed phone tapping and mail surveillance — areas of privacy previously considered sacred. In April, they announced ‘boycotts’ of Jewish businesses, and removed all public employees deemed Jewish or having anti-Nazi affiliations from their jobs. Trade unions were banned on 2 May. The first spectacular book burning took place on 10 May. All political parties other than the National Socialists were officially banned on 14 July 1933. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 255

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Arendt’s analysis of totalitarian legal transformation and the gradual normalization of surveillance of privacy. — connects to: State inaction on right-wing crimes enabled Nazi terror to grow — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 809; Nazi secrecy about extermination emerged only during the fully totalitarianized wartime phase — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2678; The Nazi takeover dismantled Weimar privacy rights within months — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 255

Broader Connections

• State inaction on right-wing crimes enabled Nazi terror to grow #expands (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 809
• Nazi secrecy about extermination emerged only during the fully totalitarianized wartime phase #complicates (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2678