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Hitler’s emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world.
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Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
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University students burn upwards of 25,000 “un-German” books in Berlin’s Opera Square. Some 40,000 people gather to hear Joseph Goebbels deliver a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”
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Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation.
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Hitler becomes the absolute dictator of Germany.
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Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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Revision of Paragraphs 175 and 175a facilitates the systematic persecution of homosexual men in Nazi Germany.
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Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders
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Twenty-year-old Egon Weiss escaped to Palestine in November 1940 and survived the explosion of the refugee ship Patria. The destruction of ship carrying 1,800 Jewish refugees.
