1933:
30 Jan - Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
27 Feb - Reichstag fire
28 Feb - Reichstag Fire Decree/Law for the Protection of People and the State →
takes away civil rights
5 March - Reichstag elections (Nazis win 43.5% votes)
17 March - appointment of Schacht as President of the Reichsbank
20 March - Dachau, 1st conc camp, opens
23 March - Enabling Act - alter the constitution, make laws, agree to treaties w foreign states
and SPD + KPD excluded from local gov’t
April - start of book burnings
1 April - national boycott against Jewish business
26 April - formation of Gestapo
2 May - creation of the DAF
27 Nov - Strength Through Joy programme created
1934:
30 June - Night of the Long Knives → purge of the SA and political enemies
July - appointment of Schacht as Minister of Economics - key in Germany’s recovery from the
Depression
2 August - Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes führer
September - Schacht’s New Plan - gov’t in control of all aspects of trade, tariffs, capital and
currency exchange
1935:
16 March - conscription to military and rearmament announced
15 September - Nuremberg Race Laws
1936:
March - remilitarisation of the Rhineland
August - Four Year Plan begins
1 August - Olympics in Nazi Germany - Germany won 89 medals
1937:
November - Schacht resigns, Goring become economic dictator
Degenerate art vs. Nazi art exhibition
1938:
March - Anschluss with Austria
9 November - Kristallnacht → attacks on Jews across Germany, >20,000 Jews
arrested and taken to conc camps
September - Munich Conference
30 Jan - Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
27 Feb - Reichstag fire
28 Feb - Reichstag Fire Decree/Law for the Protection of People and the State →
takes away civil rights
5 March - Reichstag elections (Nazis win 43.5% votes)
17 March - appointment of Schacht as President of the Reichsbank
20 March - Dachau, 1st conc camp, opens
23 March - Enabling Act - alter the constitution, make laws, agree to treaties w foreign states
and SPD + KPD excluded from local gov’t
April - start of book burnings
1 April - national boycott against Jewish business
26 April - formation of Gestapo
2 May - creation of the DAF
27 Nov - Strength Through Joy programme created
1934:
30 June - Night of the Long Knives → purge of the SA and political enemies
July - appointment of Schacht as Minister of Economics - key in Germany’s recovery from the
Depression
2 August - Hindenburg dies, Hitler becomes führer
September - Schacht’s New Plan - gov’t in control of all aspects of trade, tariffs, capital and
currency exchange
1935:
16 March - conscription to military and rearmament announced
15 September - Nuremberg Race Laws
1936:
March - remilitarisation of the Rhineland
August - Four Year Plan begins
1 August - Olympics in Nazi Germany - Germany won 89 medals
1937:
November - Schacht resigns, Goring become economic dictator
Degenerate art vs. Nazi art exhibition
1938:
March - Anschluss with Austria
9 November - Kristallnacht → attacks on Jews across Germany, >20,000 Jews
arrested and taken to conc camps
September - Munich Conference
