Fuhrerprinzip
Nazi Germany cultivated the Fuhrerprinzip (leader principle), and Hitler was generally known as just der Fuhrer ("the Leader")
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
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Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline — Page 7
Follow Adolf Hitler through 1,628 dated historical records for Germany.
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1933
Legislation
The Kroll Opera House, where the voting will be held, is surrounded by SA & SS. The Centre Party votes for the Enabling Law, the "legal" basis of dictatorship
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Reichstag
The Reichstag convenes in the Kroll Opera House
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
Enabling Act
Uses the Enabling Act after its approval to govern by cabinet law and accelerate the coordination of Germany under Nazi rule.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Concordat
Bishops withdraw their ban on membership of the Nazi party
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
US declines to recognize the German occupation of Bohemia & Moravia
The US "declines" to recognize the German occupation of Bohemia & Moravia. Roosevelt requests an assurance Germany will not invade any country from a list of 31
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
NSDAP
German bishops withdraw their ban on Nazism
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
SS
The SS had grown from a tiny personal bodyguard unit to a formation of over 50,000 men, the decision is made to form a new bodyguard unit, picking the most capable and trustworthy SS men to form its cadre
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
SS
The SS is put under the command of Josef Dietrich who had selected 117 men for the SS-Stabswache Berlin, out of these three would become divisional commanders,at least eight would become regimental commanders, fifteen became battalion commanders.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Jewish Bank Accounts
The Nazis seize Jewish bank accounts
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Jewish Boycott
Approves a national boycott of Jewish businesses, lawyers and doctors as an early public act of antisemitic Nazi policy.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Persecution
National boycott of all Jewish businesses & professions
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Constitution of Germany
Appoints Nazi Reich Governors to run all German states subjecting them to the Reich
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Trade Agreement
Anglo-German trade agreement
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Day of National Labour
Stages May Day as the Day of National Labour before the regime destroys the independent trade unions.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
VJ Day
The "Joy of Victory" celebrations take place
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Arrest of Adolf Hitler
Trades Union leaders are put in concentration camps
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Trades Unions
The Nazis suppress German trades unions
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Trades Unions
Dissolves the Trades Unions, their leaders are put in concentration camps
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Books
Bonfires are started with proscribed books of anti-Nazi writers
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
Burning Books
Bonfires are started with proscribed books of anti-Nazi writers
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
Purge
Decadent books are burnt in a purge by the Nazis
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Peace Speech
Gives a Reichstag speech claiming Germany seeks peace while demanding equality of rights in armaments.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Election
The Nazis win elections in Danzig
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Social Democratic Party
Frick dissolves the Social Democratic Party as "subversive & inimical to the state"
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Neuordnung
Policy change of the "National revolution" combining Nationalism & Socialism
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
1st propaganda leaflet drop over Austria, denouncing Dollfuss
1st propaganda leaflet drop over Austria, denouncing Dollfuss
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Catholic Bavarian Peoples Party
The Catholic Bavarian Peoples Party announces its dissolution
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
German National Party
The German National Party announces its dissolution
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Peoples Party
The Peoples Party announces its dissolution
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Centre Party
The Centre Party announces its dissolution
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Dissolution
The Centre Party announces its dissolution
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Concordat
Papen & Cardinal Pacelli sign the German concordat with Rome
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
Papen & Cardinal Pacelli sign the German concordat with Rome
Papen & Cardinal Pacelli sign the German concordat with Rome
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
Concordat
The world learns of the concordat signed between Germany & the Holy See
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1945
Constitution of Germany
The National Socialist German Workers Party becomes the only political party
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Dismissal
Dismisses all members of the Cabinet who are not Nazi sympathisers
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
National Socialism
The National Socialist German Workers Party becomes the only political party
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
One Party State
Approves the Law Against the Formation of New Parties, making the NSDAP Germany's only legal political party.
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Political Parties
The NSDAP becomes the political party allowed in Germany
Role range: 1933-1945 – 1933-1934
Records, sources and methodology
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