Dismantled freedom? Germany was a disaster to begin with constant fights between Reds and Black shirts. Hitler ended dissent because the people wanted him too. They wanted to go a week without political battle in the street, broken windows, hyper inflation. Castro seized power using violence, which was more like Mussolini, or Franco for that matter, where as the political parties of Germany actually settled on Hitler because he was a 'moderate' and they thought they could control him.
The Night of the Long Knives was Hitler's price for power and the political powers went along with it.
Oh, I see, Churchill is in the History section at Amazon.com ergo he is a historian.
"Dismantled freedom?"
Yes, dismantled freedom and democracy.
Weimar was a Republic, one they couldnt keep thanks to Adolf Hitler and his clique. It doesnt matter that other fools didnt know what Hitler was up to or didnt care and helped him get to power, once *in* power, Hitler constructed a totalitarian dictatorship equal in its societal control to Stalin's Soviet Union. Who who helped him were complicit or "useful idiots" of the same kinds as the leftists who aid and abet Communist revolutionaries.
"The Night of the Long Knives was Hitler's price for power and the political powers went along with it. "
Grrr. YOu engage in the same kind of moral equivalence as the Liberals! This was not a 'price for power' this was a political purge and violent one at that! You leave *out* that of course those who opposed Hitler were *murdured* and *jailed* before during and after this particular purge, btho those opposing him openly and those who helped Hitler but were no longer needed were then murdered (brown shirts/SA by the SS) and the remainder of the intelligensia ended up in labor and concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnight.htm
No different from the fate of the Baathists marched out of the room by Saddam when he took over; no different from the various opponents of Lenin and later Stalin who were murdered, put into show trials, sent to labor camps. Hitler removing Roehm was like Stalin removing Trotsky.
BTW, calling the Nationalist Socialist Worker Party (Nazi party) 'moderate' is wrong, when they were an extremist party that came to power only due to the extreme economic depression of the early 1930s, and Hitler's willingness to lie to any one group about what he was for. Anything to gain power.
"On 23rd March, 1933, all members of the DNVP in the Reichstag voted for the Enabling Bill which gave Hitler dictatorial powers."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERenabling.htm
"Soon afterwards the Communist Party and the Social Democrat Party were banned. Party activists still in the country were arrested. A month later Hitler announced that the Catholic Centre Party, the Nationalist Party and all other political parties other than the NSDAP were illegal, and by the end of 1933 over 150,000 political prisoners were in concentration camps. Hitler was aware that people have a great fear of the unknown, and if prisoners were released, they were warned that if they told anyone of their experiences they would be sent back to the camp."
YES - HITLER DISMANTLED GERMAN FREEDOM IN 1933 AND 1934.