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Adolf Hitler = Chancellor
Hitler’s emergence as chancellor on January 30, 1933, marked a crucial turning point for Germany and, ultimately, for the world. -
Anti-Jewish Boycott
Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany. -
Book Burning
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!” -
Röhm Affair
Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation. -
Hitler Abolishes office
Hitler becomes the absolute dictator of Germany. -
Jew's barred from Serving
Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces -
Revision of paragraph175
Revision of Paragraphs 175 and 175a facilitates the systematic persecution of homosexual men in Nazi Germany. -
Concentration Camp Opens
Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders -
Explosion of SS
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.
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