40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police
Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere
Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.
German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
Nazis issue a Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
The Gestapo is born, created by Hermann Göring in the German state of Prussia.
Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.
Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary Health Court to have genetic defects.
Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
Nazis establish Reich Chamber of Culture, then exclude Jews from the Arts.
Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.
Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
