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-Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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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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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
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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."
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The Gestapo is born, created by Hermann Göring in the German state of Prussia.
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Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.
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Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary Health Court to have genetic defects.
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
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Nazis establish Reich Chamber of Culture, then exclude Jews from the Arts.
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Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
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Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.
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Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.