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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
On the night of January 30, 1933, the Nazis organized a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. In the pic above Adolf Hitler and Hermann Göring greet the participants in the parade as they pass beneath the window of Hitler's new office. -
The Night of Long Knives
Saturday morning about 10 a.m. a phone call was placed from Hitler in Munich to Göring in Berlin with the prearranged code word 'Kolibri' (hummingbird) that caused murderous violence in Berlin and over 20 other cities. SS execution squads along with Göring's private police force roared through the streets hunting down SA leaders and anyone on the prepared list of political enemies . By 4 a.m., Monday, July 2, the bloody purge had ended. Estimates vary from 200 or 250, to as high as 1,000 or more -
Hitler becomes Führer.
summer of 1934,the elderly German President,Paul von Hindenburg was very close to dieing and had been for months giving Hitler and the Nazis ample opportunity to make plans to capitalize on his demise.On August 2,1934,at 9 a.m.German President von Hindenburg dies.Giving Hitler the chance to announce laws of his own which were technically illegal.Following the announcement of this law,the German Officers' Corps and every individual in the German Army swore a personal oath of allegiance to Hitler. -
Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help.After the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, a dozen supplemental Nazi decrees were issued that eventually outlawed the Jews completely, depriving them of their rights as human beings. -
Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
"We understand this and we do not expect to be loved...All those who have Germany at heart, will and should respect us. All those who in some way or at some time have a bad conscience in respect to the Führer and the nation should fear us. For these people we have constructed an organization called the SD (SS security service) and in the same way...the Gestapo said by Heinrich Himmler in his speech after he was appointed chief of the German police -
'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
traveling exhibition promoted stereotypes of Jews and Nazi perceptions of their danger to the world. Officials shown above are gazing at a segment entitled, "Jewish dress was a warning against racial defilement.Later, in 1939-40, Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels commissioned the notorious film of the same name, "Der Ewige Jude," which used footage of Jews suffering in the Warsaw Ghetto intercut with scenes of rats to show that Jews "differ from us in body, but especially in soul." -
Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
A coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.The attack came after Herschel Grynszpan, a 17 year old Jew living in Paris, shot and killed a member of the German Embassy staff there in retaliation for the poor treatment his father and his family suffered at the hands of the Nazis in Germany. -
SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up the emigration of Jews.
On Heydrich's order, 25,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. After the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the start of World War Two, Heydrich was given control of the new Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) which combined the SD, Gestapo, Criminal Police, and foreign intelligence service into an enormous centralized organization that would soon terrorize the entire continent of Europe and conduct mass murder on a scale unprecedented in human history.
