Hitler and His Accomplices of Evil Part 3 of 4

Part 3 Night befalls Germany ... 1929 - 1934

Germany between 1929 and 1934: These were tumultuous times!

October 1929: Beginning of the world economic crisis

March 1930: The Grand Coalition breaks up, beginning of the Brüning government

September 14, 1930: 
Reichstag election, NSDAP becomes second strongest party, continuation of the Brüning government (until May 1932)

June 1, 1932: Presidential Cabinet under Chancellor von Papen

July 20, 1932: Prussia strike

July 31, 1932:
Reichstag election, strengthening of the radical parties, NSDAP strongest force in the party spectrum

September 12, 1932: Vote of no confidence against the Papen government, dissolution of the Reichstag

November 6, 1932: Reichstag election, Papen resigns

2 December 1932: Kurt von Schleicher becomes new chancellor (resignation January 28, 1933)

January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor

February 1, 1933: Dissolution of the Reichstag by Reich President von Hindenburg

February 4, 1933:
Ordinance of the Reich President for the Protection of the German People: Restriction of the Freedom of the Press and of the Assembly

February 22, 1933: 50,000 SS / SA members are appointed armed "auxiliary police officers".

February 27, 1933: Reichstag fire

February 28, 1933:
Ordinance of the Reich President on the Protection of the People and the State (Reichstag Fire Ordinance), repeals essential fundamental rights, the basis for the persecution of political opponents

5 March 1933: New elections: narrow majority for NSDAP and DNVP

NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party aka NAZI party)
DNVP (German National People's Party): After 1929 the DNVP co-operated with the Nazis, joining forces in the Harzburg Front of 1931, forming coalition governments in some states and finally supporting Hitler's appointment as Chancellor (Reichskanzler) in January 1933. Initially, the DNVP had a number of ministers in Hitler's government but quickly lost influence

March 21, 1933: Day of Potsdam

March 23, 1933: Enabling Act

March 31, 1933: Law for the "Gleichschaltung" (synchronisation) of the federal states with the Reich

April 1, 1933: First trade union house occupied, boycott against Jewish businesses

April 7, 1933: Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

May 2, 1933:
Breaking up the unions: union houses occupied, confiscated assets of the trade unions, leading officials put into "protective custody"

14 July 1933:
Law against the reformation of parties, all other parties had dissolved themselves up to this time or had been forbidden

November 12, 1933: Reichstag election (sham election)

January 20, 1934: Law on the Order of National Labor

January 30, 1934: Law on the rebuilding of the empire ("Reich")

August 1934:
After the death of Hindenburg: union of the offices of the Reich President and the Reich Chancellor in the person of Adolf Hitler

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