Himmler establishes the first concentration camp at Dachau
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Reichstag passes the Enabling Act
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Trade unions are dissolved
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SPD banned; other parties dissolve themselves in the weeks which follow
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Legislation prohibits political parties other than the Nazi Party
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New 'election' to the Reichstag; the Nazi Party gains 92.2% of the vote
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'Night of the Long Knives' - Ernst Rohm and other SA leaders and members of the conservative oppostition are arrested and shot without trial
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President Hindenburg dies. The offices of the President and Chancellor are combined. Hitler is now called Führer (leader). The army swears an oath of allegiance to Hitler