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German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, to Chancellor at the head of the coalition government.
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Less than 3 months after the Nazi become leaders, they stage a boycott to target Jewish leaderships. They held signs saying "Don't by from Jews" and "The Jews are our misfortune".
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University students burned up to 25,000 books that they believed were "un-German" in Berlin's Opera Square. Also, the students burned thousands more all around town.
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Adolf Hitler abolishes the office of President and then declares himself Führer of the people and the German Reich. Now there is no limit to his authority.
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These laws were made of two parts: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. This showed how to identify a Jew or how to be labeled as a Jew.
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Buchenwald became known as one of the biggest concentration camps in Germany. Only men were taken there until the 1940s. At first it was a camp for prisoners, but after Kristallnacht, over 10,000 Jews were taken there.
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After Germany had invaded Poland two days earlier, Britain and France declare war on Germany to honor their guarantee on Poland's borders.
