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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg.
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The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich (note: some "wild camps" already existed before 1933: Papenburg, Esterwegen, Börgermoor etc...). The first commandant of Dachau is Theodor Eicke.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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Nuremberg Laws": first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag
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1936-1944
March 3: Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions.
March 7: Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.
June 17: Reichführer SS Himmler (chief of the SS units) appointed the Chief of German Police.
July 12: Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
October 25: Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis.
1937 July 15: Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
1938 March 13: Anschluss (incorporation of Austria): all antisemitic decre -
Japan surrenders; end of World War II