Question: What law did Hitler use to justify himself as dictator?
About the article "The Holocaust", section "The political left".

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The early twentieth century was a period of wrenching changes in the arts.
In the visual arts, such innovations as cubism, Dada and surrealism—following hot on the heels of symbolism, post-Impressionism and Fauvism—were not universally appreciated.
The majority of people in Germany, as elsewhere, did not care for the new art which many resented as elitist, morally suspect, and too often incomprehensible.
Under the Weimar government of the 1920s, Germany emerged as a leading center of the "avant-garde"—the birthplace of Expressionism in painting and sculpture, of the atonal musical compositions of Arnold Schoenberg, and the jazz-influenced work of Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
Films such as Robert Wiene's" The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920) and F.W.
Murnau's "Nosferatu" (1922) brought Expressionism to cinema.
The Nazis viewed the culture of the Weimar period with disgust.
Their response stemmed partly from a conservative aesthetic taste, and partly from their determination to use culture as a propaganda tool.
On both counts, a painting such as Otto Dix's "War Cripples" (1920) was anathema to them.
It unsparingly depicts four badly disfigured veterans of the First World War, then a familiar sight on Berlin's streets, rendered in caricatured style.
Featured in the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, it would hang next to a label accusing Dix—himself a volunteer in World War I—of "an insult to the German heroes of the Great War".
As dictator, Hitler gave his personal taste in art the force of law to a degree never before seen.
Only in Stalin's Soviet Union, where Socialist Realism was the mandatory style, had a state shown such concern with regulation of the arts.
In the case of Germany, the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art, seen by Hitler as an art whose exterior form embodied an inner racial ideal.
The reason for this, as Henry Grosshans points out, is that Hitler "saw Greek and Roman art as uncontaminated by Jewish influences.
Modern art was as an act of aesthetic violence by the Jews against the German spirit.
Such was true to Hitler even though only Liebermann, Meidner, Freundlich, and Marc Chagall, among those who made significant contributions to the German modernist movement, were Jewish.
But Hitler [...] took upon himself the responsibility of deciding who, in matters of culture, thought and acted like a Jew.
"The supposedly "Jewish" nature of all art that was indecipherable, distorted, or that represented "depraved" subject matter was explained through the concept of degeneracy, which held that distorted and corrupted art was a symptom of an inferior race.
By propagating the theory of degeneracy, the Nazis combined their anti-Semitism with their drive to control the culture, thus consolidating public support for both campaigns. 
After Himmler tried to negotiate a surrender to the western Allies via Count Bernadotte in April 1945, Fegelein left the Reich Chancellery bunker complex and was caught by SS-Obersturmbannführer Peter Högl in his Berlin apartment on 27 April, wearing civilian clothes and preparing to flee to Sweden or Switzerland.
He was carrying cash—German and foreign—and jewellery, some of which belonged to Eva Braun.
Högl also uncovered a briefcase containing documents with evidence of Himmler's attempted peace negotiations with the western Allies.
According to most accounts he was intoxicated when arrested and brought back to the Führerbunker.
Journalist James P. O'Donnell, who conducted extensive interviews in the 1970s, provides a detailed description of what happened next.
Waffen-SS General Wilhelm Mohnke, who presided over the court martial for desertion, told O'Donnell that Hitler ordered him to set up a tribunal.
Mohnke arranged for a court martial panel, which consisted of Wilhelm Burgdorf, Hans Krebs, Johann Rattenhuber, and himself.
Fegelein, still drunk, refused to accept that he had to answer to Hitler, and stated that he was responsible only to Himmler.
Fegelein was so drunk that he was crying and vomiting; he was unable to stand up, and even urinated on the floor.
Mohnke was in a quandary, as German military law required the defendant to be of sound mind and body during court martial.
Although he was certain Fegelein was "guilty of flagrant desertion", Mohnke closed the proceedings and turned the defendant over to General Rattenhuber and his RSD security squad.
Mohnke never saw Fegelein again.
Fegelein's wife was heavily pregnant when he was arrested (the baby was born in early May).
Hitler considered releasing him without punishment or assigning him to Mohnke's troops.
Hitler's secretary, Traudl Junge—an eye-witness to bunker events—stated that Braun pleaded with Hitler to spare her brother-in-law and tried to justify Fegelein's behaviour.
However, he was taken to the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 28 April, and was "shot like a dog".
Rochus Misch, the last surviving individual from the Führerbunker, disputed aspects of this account in a 2007 interview with "Der Spiegel".
According to Misch, Hitler did not order Fegelein's execution, only his demotion.
Misch claimed to know the identity of Fegelein's killer, but refused to reveal his name. 
Pölzl was soon to be pregnant by Hitler.
Smith writes that if Hitler had been free to do as he wished, he would have married Pölzl immediately but because of the affidavit concerning his paternity, Hitler was now legally Pölzl's first cousin once removed, too close to marry.
He submitted an appeal to the church for a humanitarian waiver.
Permission came, and on 7 January 1885 a wedding was held at Hitler's rented rooms on the top floor of the Pommer Inn.
A meal was served for the few guests and witnesses.
Hitler then went to work for the rest of the day.
Even Klara found the wedding to be a short ceremony.
Throughout the marriage, she continued to call him "uncle".
On 17 May 1885, five months after the wedding, the new Frau Klara Hitler gave birth to her first child, Gustav.
A year later, on 25 September 1886, she gave birth to a daughter, Ida.
Her son Otto followed Ida in 1887, but he died shortly after birth.
Later that year, diphtheria struck the Hitler household, resulting in the deaths of both Gustav and Ida.
Klara had been Hitler's wife for three years, and all her children were dead, but Hitler still had the children from his relationship with Matzelsberger, Alois Jr., and Angela.
On April 20, 1889, she gave birth to another son, future Nazi dictator Adolf.
He was a sickly child, and his mother fretted over him.
Alois was 51 when he was born.
Hitler had little interest in child rearing and left it all to his wife.
When not at work he was either in a tavern or busy with his hobby, keeping bees.
In 1892, Hitler was transferred from Braunau to Passau.
He was 55, Klara 32, Alois Jr. 10, Angela 9 and Adolf was three years old.
In 1894, Hitler was re-assigned to Linz.
Klara had just given birth to Edmund, so it was decided she and the children would stay in Passau for the time being.
On 21 January 1896, Paula, Adolf's younger sister, was born.
She was the last child of Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl.
Hitler was often home with his family.
He had five children ranging in age from infancy to 14.
Edmund (the youngest of the boys) died of measles on 2 February 1900.
Alois wanted his son Adolf to seek a career in the civil service.
However, Adolf had become so alienated from his father that he was repulsed by whatever Alois wanted.
Adolf sneered at the thought of a lifetime spent enforcing petty rules.
Alois tried to browbeat his son into obedience while Adolf did his best to be the opposite of whatever his father wanted.
Robert G. L. Waite noted, "Even one of his closest friends admitted that Alois was 'awfully rough' with his wife and 'hardly ever spoke a word to her at home'."
If Hitler was in a bad mood, he picked on the older children or Klara herself, in front of them.
William Patrick Hitler says that he had heard from his father, Alois Jr, that Alois Hitler, Sr. used to beat his children.
After Hitler and his oldest son Alois Jr. had a climactic and violent argument, Alois Jr. left home, and the elder Alois swore he would never give the boy a penny of inheritance beyond what the law required.
According to reports, Alois Hitler liked to lord it over his neighbors. 
Hindenburg remained in office until his death at the age of 86 from lung cancer at his home in "Neudeck", East Prussia on 2 August 1934.
The day before Hindenburg's death, Hitler flew to "Neudeck" and visited him.
Hindenburg, old and senile as well as bedridden from being very sick, thought he was meeting Kaiser Wilhelm II, and he called Hitler "Your Majesty" when Hitler first walked into the room.
On August 1, Hitler got word that Hindenburg was on his deathbed.
He then had the cabinet pass the "Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich," which stipulated that upon Hindenburg's death, the offices of president and chancellor would be merged under the title of Leader and Chancellor ("Führer und Reichskanzler").
Two hours after Hindenburg's death, it was announced that as a result of this law, Hitler was now both Germany's head of state and head of government, thereby completing the progress of "Gleichschaltung".
This action effectively removed all institutional checks and balances on Hitler's power.
Hitler had made plans almost as soon as he took complete power to seize the powers of the president for himself as soon as Hindenburg died.
He'd known as early as the spring of 1934 that Hindenburg would likely not survive the year, and had been working feverishly to get the armed forces—the only group in Germany that was nearly powerful enough to remove him with Hindenburg gone—to support his bid to become Hindenburg's successor.
Indeed, he'd agreed to suppress the SA in return for the Army's support.
Hitler had a plebiscite held on 19 August 1934, in which the German people were asked if they approved of Hitler merging the two offices.
The "Ja" (Yes) vote amounted to 90% of the vote.
In taking over the president's powers for himself without calling for a new election, Hitler technically violated the Enabling Act.
While the Enabling Act allowed Hitler to pass laws that contravened the Weimar Constitution, it specifically forbade him from interfering with the powers of the president.
Moreover, the Weimar Constitution had been amended in 1932 to make the president of the High Court of Justice, not the chancellor, acting president pending a new election.
However, Hitler had become law unto himself by this time, and no one dared object.
Hindenburg himself was said to be a monarchist who favored a restoration of the German monarchy.
Though he hoped one of the Prussian princes would be appointed to succeed him as Head of State, he did not attempt to use his powers in favour of such a restoration, as he considered himself bound by the oath he had sworn on the Weimar Constitution.
It has been alleged that Hindenburg’s will asked for Hitler to restore the monarchy.
However, the truth of this story cannot be established as Oskar von Hindenburg destroyed the portions of his father’s will relating to politics. 
"The New Adventures of Hitler" was a satirical and surreal (one scene has Hitler opening a cupboard to find Morrissey singing "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now") strip based on the claims of Hitler's sister-in-law Bridget Dowling that Hitler had lived with her, her husband Alois Hitler, Jr., and her son William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913.
It first appeared in "Cut", a Scottish arts and culture magazine and became instantly controversial, and some accused Morrison of being a Nazi due to his use of Hitler in what was essentially a humorous story.
The resulting controversy saw Pat Kane, the lead singer of the band Hue and Cry as well as one of the magazine's editors, threaten to walk off the magazine and indulge in a public war of words with Morrison over his intentions with the strip.
The debate widened to cover freedom of speech issues and became a nationwide news story when the tabloid newspaper "The Sun" got hold of the story.
"Cut" folded before the whole strip was published, but the controversy continued when "The New Adventures of Hitler" was printed in its entirety in "Crisis" in 1990.
"Crisis" was a spin off from "2000 AD" which printed more adult-oriented work and "The New Adventures of Hitler" fit in with the themes of the magazine.
However the controversy which had surrounded the story in "Cut" continued with the strip's reprinting in "Crisis".
The story ran from "Crisis" in issues 46-49 and a proposed collected edition by IPC never appeared.
Morrison himself had planned to set up his own imprint to self-publish some of his work, including "The New Adventures of Hitler", but nothing came of the idea.