Hitler Becomes Chancellor

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Dachau concentration camp opens

Mar 22, 1933

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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

Apr 1, 1933

Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions

Apr 7, 1933

Gestapo established

Apr 26, 1933

Public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state

May 10, 1933

Law stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship

Jul 12, 1933

Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him

Aug 2, 1934

Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

May 31, 1935

"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

Sep 15, 1935

Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

Oct 25, 1935

Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew

Nov 15, 1935

Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions

Mar 3, 1936

Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty

Mar 7, 1936

Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police

Jun 17, 1936

Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens

Aug 22, 1936

Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

Oct 25, 1936

Buchenwald concentration camp opens

Jul 15, 1937