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University students burn over 25,000 "un-german" books in Berlin's Opera Square and about 40,000 people gathered around to hear Joseph Goebbe's address of "No to decadence and moral corruption."
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Jewish Germans establish the Central Organization of German Jews, in an effort to better represent the interest and different wants of German Jews, through a unified response.
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German President, Paul Von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes the president of Germany, with the support of the German armed forces.
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Hitler abolished the office of President and makes himself "Fiihrer" of the German Reich and people, plus his position of Chancellor. Now Hitler's decisions cannot be bound by German law. He becomes the absolute dictator of Germany and there no limits of his authority now.
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German government bans Jehovah's Witness organizations because they refused to swear allegiance to Germany since their religion forbids oaths to or service in the armed forces of any temporal power.
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ln the Nuremberg Race Laws, there were two pieces of legislation: the Reich Citizenship Law and the German Blood and Honor Protection Law. Many of the racial theories underlying Nazi ideology were institutionalized by these laws and provided the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. The Nuremberg Race Laws did not identify a "Jew" as someone with specific religious beliefs.
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As German officials made every effort to portray Germany as a respectable member of the international community, the Olympic Games were a propaganda success for the Nazi government. Removing anti-Jewish signs and restrained anti-Jewish activities from public display. Germany also included one part of its Olympic team in response to pressure from foreign Olympic delegations: Jewish fencer Helene Mayer. For the duration of the games, Germany lifted anti-homosexuality laws for foreign visitors.
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Buchenwald, together with its many satellite camps, was one of the largest concentration camps established within the borders of Germany. Until late 1943 or early 1944, women were not part of the Buchenwald camp system. The main camp was encircled by an electrified barbed-wire fence, watchtowers, and a chain of sentries fitted with automatic machine guns. In the camp stables, the SS often shot prisoners and hanged other prisoners in the crematorium area. Early inmates were political prisoners
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Reich Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels and Julius Streicher, editor of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, open the antisemitic exhibition Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) at the German Museum library in Munich, Germany. Shows stereotypical images of Jews to illustrate the accusations of a Jewish world conspiracy against Germany and the links between Judaism and Germany. It was shown in Berlin, Vienna, and other German cities as it traveled. Over 400,000 people saw the exhibition.
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In what is called the Anschluss, German soldiers invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich.
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In Poland, Germany invaded. Nazi Germany and its allies conquered much of Europe over the next year. German officials confiscated Jewish property, required Jews to wear identifying armbands in many places, and established ghettos and camps for forced labor.
