He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.

BERLIN, Dec. 18.--At the opening of the Reichstag to-day Herr von Koeller, Conservative, proposed that the next sitting be fixed for Monday. He urged the necessity that the Reichstag revise the ...