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Civil Rights

Germany · Government / NSDAP Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1933

Adolf Hitler28 February 1933

Government / NSDAP Government

Less than a month after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Chancellor the Reichstag Fire Decree invokes Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, suspending several constitutional protections on civil rights

Names involved

Adolf Hitler

Provenance

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