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