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In January 1933 after the General Election, Hitler proposed an Enabling Bill that would give him dictatorial powers.
Such an act needed three-quarters of the members of the Reichstag to vote in its favor.
Before the end of January when his bill was posted it acquired the two-thirds majority that it needed with only the Socialists voting against.
The Enabling Bill passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat on March 23.
The Bill followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of these two bills was to bring the Weimar Republic to an end.
After four months Hitler's goals were reached. In May the Socialists were banned and so were trade unions. Hitler was now the dictator of Germany.
The Reichsrat was one of two legislative bodies in Germany during Weimar Republic (1919-1933), the other being the Reichstag; the Reichstag (English: Diet of the Realm) was a legislative body of Germany ("German Reich") from 1919, when it succeeded the Weimar National Assembly, until the Nazi takeover in 1933. The Reichsrat consisted of members appointed by the German States and participated in legislation affecting all constitutional changes and state competences, while the Reichstag was the elected body of the people.
Hitler's Reichstag speech promoting the bill was delivered at the Kroll Opera House, following the Reichstag fire.