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Nazi supporters at a campaign rally in Waldenburg, Germany. In a speech, Hitler attacks the Weimar Republic and pledges to dissolve the parliamentary system.
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The Nazi Party assumes control of the German state.
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Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation.
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The German government bans all organizations of the Jehovah's Witness Christian denomination.
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Owens' victory in the 100-meter dash is the first of four gold medals he wins at the 1936 Olympic games.
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Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.
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Josef Goebbels and Julius Streicher open the antisemitic exhibition Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) at the library of the German Museum in Munich, Germany.
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On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss
