On 30 January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of the German Republic.
After the Reichstag fire of 28 February 1933, clauses of the Weimar
constitution guaranteeing personal liberty, freedom of speech, of the
press, of association, and assembly were suspended. The Nazi
conspirators secured the passage by the Reichstag of a “Law for the
Protection of the People and the Reich” giving Hitler and the members of
his then cabinet plenary powers of legislation. The Nazi conspirators
retained such powers after having changed the members of the cabinet.
The conspirators caused all political parties except the Nazi Party to
be prohibited. They caused the Nazi Party to be established as a
para-governmental organization with extensive and extraordinary
privileges.