1933 - 1939

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • The German Reichstag burns

  • First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin

  • Enabling Act gives Hitler dictatorial power.

  • Nazi boycott of Jewish owned shops

  • Nazis burn books in Germany

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp

  • Nazi Party declared Germany's only political party

  • Germany quits the League of Nations

  • German President Hindenburg dies

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany

  • The Nazi "Night of the Long Knives"

  • Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss

  • Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles by introducing military conscription

  • German Jews stripped of rights by Nuremberg Race Laws

  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law