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Publication of Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf was a book expressing all of Hitler's anti-Semitic, anti-communist, anti-Marxist, racialist, and far-right nationalist ideas. He promoted the key components of Nazism and disseminated what he believed, so this event was significant because when his cruel and dangerous words were accepted, it helped him rise to power. -
Black Tuesday
The crash of the Wall Street stock market was one significant event because as the country was in a period of low morale and economic instability, Hitler was able to take advantage of people's fear and use in his favor, because he said that he could restore the country's former greatness, so people could start supporting him. -
Hitler is appointed as Chancellor
This event is important because it demonstrates how until a certain point he was acting legally, he had not done anything illegal until being nominated, Chancellor. However, this event also marked when he started to expand his position by raising the fear of a Communist uprising and emphasized that only he could restore the law and order of the country -
The Reichstag Fire
When the Reichstag building was burned down and a younger worker was convicted, Hitler used this event to expel communists from the Parliament and Hindenburg declared a state of emergency using Article 48, so it was the end of a democratic Germany. -
Enabling Act
This was a law in which gave Hitler the power to issue new laws without consulting the Parliament, which had a lot of implications. For instance, communists were expanded, the SA intimidated members of other parties, and mainly, Hitler had the support he needed to suspend the country's constitution. This happened because, with this law, the Nazis were the only legal political party, so as they were the largest one, they had the majority support of ⅔ that Hitler needed to do that. -
Night of Long Knives
It was the elimination of all political opposition, which helped him rise to power, and become the supreme leader. It was the night in which Hitler instructed the SS member to kill more than 200 SA leaders and members. The SA had a bad reputation and Hitler grew concerned about Rohm's ambition to take charge, and that he had power, which could become a threat to him. -
President Hindenburg's death
This event was extremely crucial because when President Hindenburg died, Hitler became the supreme leader of Nazi Germany. Hence, Hitler's rise to power emphasizes how fragile democratic states can be in the face of angry people with a leader that is willing to enhance their anger by exploiting their fears. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were divided into two sections: The Reich Citizenship Law, which required that the population had to have "German blood" to be considered citizens. Therefore, Jewish and other groups would lose their rights to citizenship. And the Law for the protection of German Blood and Honor, which emphasized the importance of German blood purity, that defined who was Jew and who was not. Hence, all intimate relationships between “true Germans” and Jews were outlawed. -
Kristallnacht
It was the first time the Nazi Party used physical violence against Jews, this event had been planed by the NSDAP and carried out by SS, SA, HY, and other groups. But according to the nazi propaganda, the German People had spontaneously wanted to take revenge because of the assassination of a Nazi diplomat by a young Jew. Hence, they were allowed to enter Jewish people's homes, destroy, and even burn them. In the end, thousands of Jews were arrested, and some of them taken to concentration camps