1933 Key Dates

  • Nazi's take control of Germany

  • German parliment burns down.

  • President grants Hitler emergency powers.

  • Nazi party officially takes over German government.

  • First concentration camp opens.

  • German parliment passes Enabling Act establishing dictatorship in Germany.

  • Nazi's implement nationwide boycott on Jewish owned businesses.

  • German government declares all Jews must be dismissed from work.

  • Law declares Nazi's as sole legal party.

  • Jews are officially excluded from cultural sector

  • The editors law forbids non-Aryans to work in journalism.

  • The law allows the courts to order indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society.