Hermann Goring's "Shooting Decree": when the German Police became killers in the service of Hitler. History on YouTube

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Most history books point to the Reichstag Fire as the end of German democracy—but the transition to dictatorship began two weeks earlier. On 17 February 1933, Hermann Göring issued a chilling directive: the "Shooting Decree." It didn't just permit police violence; it made it mandatory.
In this talk into the "legal" seizure of power, we examine the two forgotten pillars of Nazi repression that preceded the Reichstag Fire Decree. While Adolf Hitler had only been Chancellor for 18 days, the machinery of state terror was already being built through administrative fiat.

I break down the two critical moves that dismantled the Weimar Republic:

The Ordinance for the Protection of the German People (4 Feb 1933): How Hindenburg and Hitler used Article 48 to crush freedom of the press and assembly.

Göring’s "Shooting Decree" (17 Feb 1933): The internal instruction to the Prussian police that authorized the "ruthless" use of firearms against political opponents.

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1. Sid Miller...

Texas Agricultural Commissioner, once posted AMERICA NEEDS A KRISTALLNACHT! That's who T-H-E-Y R! Period! To be fair, he did take it down and block me after schooling the miserable POS.

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2. Göring

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3. They are using Nazi like rhetoric with the "one of us, all of yours" bullshit.