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Nazi party wins
The Nazi Party wins 230 seats in German parliamentary elections, becoming the largest party represented. -
Anti-Jewish boycott
Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany. -
Rohm Affair
Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation. -
Ban on Jehovah’s Witness Organizations
Revision of Paragraphs 175 and 175a facilitates the systematic persecution of homosexual men in Nazi Germany. -
Olympic Games Open in Berlin
The Nazi dictatorship camouflages its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937. -
German Annexation of Austria
German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss. -
Reichstag Speech
Hitler declares that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry.
