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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
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Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
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Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
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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.
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
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Jews not allowed national health insurance.
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The Night of Long Knives occurs as Hitler, Göring and Himmler conduct a purge of the SA (storm trooper) leadership.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria.
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Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.
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SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up the emigration of Jews.