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Dachau was on of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest opening. -
The April 1, 1933, boycott aimed to intimidate Germany’s Jews and discourage the German public from shopping at Jewish businesses. -
As Nazi Germany’s political police force, the Gestapo was responsible for protecting the regime from its supposed racial and political enemies.used informants, surveillance, house searches, and brutal interrogation methods, including torture, to carry out its investigations. -
Hitler officially styled himself der Führer und Reichskanzler (the Leader and Chancellor of the Reich) after the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934 and the subsequent merging of the offices of Reichspräsident and Reichskanzler. -
The German government bans Jehovah’s Witness organizations. The ban is due to Jehovah’s Witnesses’ refusal to swear allegiance to the state; their religious convictions forbid an oath of allegiance to or service in the armed forces of any temporal power. -
The laws would define German citizenship by blood and forbade marriages between Germans and Jews. A special session of the Reichstag (German parliament) enacted the laws, marking an intensification of Nazi measures against Jews. -
Under this order, the authorities also rounded up non-Romani people living in a supposedly “Gypsy-like manner.” The decree targeted people according to perceptions of their behaviors and lifestyles. -
Under this order, the authorities also rounded up non-Romani people living in a supposedly “Gypsy-like manner.” The decree targeted people according to perceptions of their behaviors and lifestyles.