‘The Reichstag Fire was more important than the Enabling Act in allowing Hitler to consolidate power in 1933.’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.

Hitler consolidated power in 1933 through many events including the ‘Enabling Act’ and the ‘Reichstag Fire’, however historians argue that the enabling act was more important than the enabling act in aloowing the Hitler to consolidate power to some extent.
The Reichstag Fire of February 27 1933 was more important than the enabling act because it allowed Hitler to suppress the biggest threat to the Nazi Party, The Communists. A communist named Van der lubbe was caught red handed with matches and fire lighting materials and hitler used this and claimed that Hindenburg was under threat by the communist party and so Hitler arrested most of his communist opposition and so this gave him the advantage in the election and win most of the seats. Due to the Reichstag fire and the idea of the communist being a threat to Hindenburg and the country, this allowed Hitler to start promoting this idea of communist being the worst for the country and so this links to Hitler getting the advantage in the elections, if he promotes this idea of the communist being this bad party for the country then the people would only have to vote for the next best thing which just so happened to be the Nazis.
On the other hand the Reichstag fire didn't give Hitler the full control he needed to put forward his great plan of stopping democracy and changing back into a dictatorship ran by him. Also Hitler didn't get rid of all the communist in order to get control, there was still some communist who pose a threat to hitler and his