How Did Hitler Prevent The Reichstag Fire?

Firstly the Reichstag fire was a very prominent advantage to Hitler as it was a massive stage of his consolidation of power. On the 27th of February 1933 the Reichstag was set on fire and supposedly committed by Van der Lubbe who was a communist (though historians believe Hitler did it himself to rid the communists), he was executed and four other communist leaders arrested soon after. Hitler urged president Hindenburg that action must be taken and passed the Reichstag Fire Decree. Hitler could now take full advantage of the situation over 4000 communists were arrested including all those in the parliament and banning their party wiping it out making it easier for seats to be taken up by the Nazi's.

Another major move by Hitler was to get the Enabling Act passed. This enabled Hitler to rule Germany and pass laws without any input from the Reichstag or anyone including the president which would effectively render him a dictator. Since the main party that would oppose this being the communists gone it was an easy win but to be sure Hitler used the SA to intimidate the politicians into passing it, mainly by

The SA were around 2.5 million members by 1934 and growing still and Hitler believed the SA would want reward for their work in helping him and ultimately try to overthrow him as their leader and Ernst Röhm kept getting more powerful. The Army hated the SA and Hitler needed them to swear allegiance to him to continue his consolidation of power. Hitler planned for the SA Leaders to meet with him on the 30th June to discuss its future. The SA Leaders were taken by surprise and 400 arrested or executed, Ernst Röhm was killed in two days later after not complying to commit suicide. After this the SA dissolved and the army swore allegiance to Hitler, also the German public liked that the SA had been dissolved. This was known as the Night of the Long