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CHRONOLOGY

1933

Jan. 30 Hitler appointed chancellor

Feb. 3 Hitler meets with commanders of the Reichswehr for the

first time

Feb. 27-28 Reichstag fire. Government issues emergency decree “to

protect the people and the state”

March 5 Reichstag elections. Nazis receive 43.9 percent of the vote

March 21 Potsdam Day celebrations, intended to show unity of

Prussianness and National Socialism

March 23 Enabling Act passed

Apr. 1 Boycott of Jewish businesses

Apr. 7 Act to Restore a Professional Public Service passed

May 2 Trade unions disbanded and German Labor Front founded

June-July Political parties dissolved

July 20 Concordat with Vatican signed

1934

April 24 People’s Court established

June 30 Night of the Long Knives. Liquidation of SA leaders and

other political opponents begins

Aug. 2 Hindenburg dies. General Werner von Blomberg orders

Reichswehr to swear loyalty to Hitler. Hitler granted unlimited power as “Fuhrer and chancellor”

1935

Jan. 2 Admiral Wilhelm Canaris takes over as chief of Military

Intelligence

March 4-5 Synod of the Confessional Church decides to de­nounce Nazi racial theories and the “new heathens” from the pulpit. Seven hundred pastors arrested

March 16 Reintroduction of universal conscription

Aug. on Wave of arrests directed against socialist resistance group Beginning Anew

Sept. 15 Nuremberg laws enacted

Oct. Wave of arrests by the Gestapo. By May 1936, over seven thousand seized for political reasons

1936

March 7 German troops march into the demilitarized Rhineland

May 26 Campaign against monasteries and convents. Morals charges brought against 276 members of religious or­ders for alleged homosexuality

May 28 Whitsun declaration of the Confessional Church condemns Nazi racial policies

Aug. The Socialist Front in Hannover, one of the largest northern German resistance groups, headed by Wer­ner Blumenberg, broken up by Gestapo

Nov. Gestapo arrests members of the left-wing socialist organization Red Fighters

1937

Jan. 30 Enabling Act extended for four years. Hitler withdraws Germany’s signature from the discriminatory clauses of the Treaty of Versailles