Reichstag election: Nazi Party gains 43.9% of the votes (288 seats), its coalition partners (the Nationalists) take 8%
5th March 1933
4 of 13
Nazis seize power in the Länder (German states)
5th-9th March 1933
5 of 13
Himmler establishes the first concentration camp at Dachau
20th March 1933
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Reichstag passes the Enabling Act
23rd March 1933
7 of 13
Trade unions are dissolved
2nd May 1933
8 of 13
SPD banned; other parties dissolve themselves in the weeks which follow
22nd June 1933
9 of 13
Legislation prohibits political parties other than the Nazi Party
14th July 1933
10 of 13
New 'election' to the Reichstag; the Nazi Party gains 92.2% of the vote
12th November 1933
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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
30th June 1934
12 of 13
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
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