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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by President

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Hindenburg a man who's distinguished name could have been given to a [Sign of Hindenburg University]

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university or a library but well then someone named a blimp after him.. poor guy

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well take a look at this image Kristallnacht yeah, here's question not

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long before this picture was taken and Hitler rose to power and ruled by decree [German people looking into a smashed store window]

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alone due to which of the following and here your potential answers [mumbling]

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.....Well before moving forward it's important to clarify what ruled by [camera going quickly through a busy street]

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decree means.. Essentially it's a style of ruling that allows for a quick and [Teacher holding his hands in the air]

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unchallenged creation of laws by a single person or group it's most

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commonly used by dictators, absolute monarchs and older sisters...naturally then [Older sister screaming]

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Hitler was a fan but what was it that allowed him to rule in such a way was it

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the Nuremberg laws, not quite these were actually the laws that allowed Nazi [two people looking at a German chart]

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Germany to persecute Jewish people and excluded jews from Reich citizenship

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they couldn't own land in Germany.. terrible yeah, our answer no. C and D are

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intimately linked so we'll address them together Hindenburg was never removed

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from power he actually died of lung cancer while in office. So D doesn't [Hindenburg sat at a table]

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make much sense and Hitler didn't technically obtain a position of

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Chancellor instead he merged the position with the presidential role and

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gave it a shiny new name Fuhrer, so C doesn't fit either what allowed Hitler [Hitler with the title Fuhrer below his face]

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to rule without contention was in fact the very suspicious sounding enabling

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act which was passed as an amendment to the 1933 Weimar Constitution and did [German soldiers marching]

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exactly what you'd expect; it enabled Hitler the power to enact laws without

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the involvement of the German parliament which is we're also painfully aware was [Girl looking confused]

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really not the greatest of ideas it is however the correct answer to the

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question knowing this makes your older sister all the more scary doesn't it [Older sister looking angry in her room]

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because while Hitler at least had to pass a lot of rule by decree she didn't.. and

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that's the sign of a real dictator.... hahahaha

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