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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor
The Nazi party now holds more power within their government due to the appointing of the party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor -
Establishment of Dachau Camp
Outside a small German town, the first concentration camp is established to incarcerate political opponents. The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau between 1933 and 1945 exceeded 188,000. The number of prisoners who died in the camp and its subcamps between January 1940 and May 1945 was at least 28,000, to which must be added more who died there between 1933 and the end of 1939, as well as an undetermined number of unregistered prisoners. -
Anti-Jewish Boycott
The growing Nazi power in Germany begins to target Jewish owned businesses and the offices of Jewish professionals. The boycott was promoted to the people as revenge for the bad international press against Germany since Hitler's election. To help promote this, the Nazis claimed that Jews were spreading "atrocity stories" to damage Germany's reputation. To enforce it even further, German guards stood outside of stores and shouted Jewish propaganda. -
Law Limits Jews in Public Schools
On this date, a law was passed that drastically cuts the number of Jewish children that are allowed to attend public schools. The percentage of Jewish children in public schools could be not more than 5%. These schools also installed love and obedience for Hitler and the government into these children. -
Law for the “Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases”
The German government passes the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases, stating that forced "sterilization" of certain people with physical and mental disabilities. This new law provides a basis for the sterilization of people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness, Gypsies, “asocial elements,” and Afro-Germans. -
Editors Law
The German Propaganda Ministry assumed control over the Reich Association of the German Press, the guild which regulated entry into the profession. Under the new Editors Law, the association kept registries of “racially pure” editors and excluded Jews and those married to Jews from the profession. -
Death of German President von Hindenburg
German President Paul von Hindenburg dies. With the support of the German armed forces, Hitler becomes President of Germany. Later that month Hitler abolishes the office of President and declares himself Führer of the German Reich and People, in addition to his position as Chancellor. In this expanded capacity, Hitler now becomes the absolute dictator of Germany; there are no legal or constitutional limits to his authority. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
Together with its many satellite camps, Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within German borders. Women were not part of the Buchenwald camp system until late 1943 or early 1944. An electrified barbed-wire fence, watchtowers, and a chain of sentries outfitted with automatic machine guns, surrounded the main camp. The SS often shot prisoners in the camp stables and hanged other prisoners in the crematorium area.
