Controversy: Popularity - Dates Flashcards
Reich Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda created, with Goebbels at its head
March 1933
Sopade (SPD movement in exile) founded
1933
Editor’s Law calls for ‘racially pure’ journalism
October 1933
Plebiscite held to confirm one party rule in Germany (88% voted in favour)
November 1933
Beauty of Labour and Kraft lurch Freud (Strength through Joy) set up
November 1933
Marburg Speech
June 1934
Night of the Long Knives
June 1934
Law Concerning Measures for the Defence of the State (issued to justify the government’s actions in the Night of the Long Knives)
July 1934
Death of President Hindenburg
August 1934
Plebiscite confirms Hitler as Hindenburg’s successor and Fuhrer (89.8% supported it) (But 4 millions still voted against it)
August 1934
Hjalmar Schacht introduces the ‘New Plan’
September 1934
Public launch of the Rearmament programme
1935
Himmler placed in overall control of policing in Germany
1936
Hermann Goring put in charge of the Office of the Four Year Plan
1936
Schacht resigns as Minister of Economics (disagreements over foreign policy)
November 1937
Blomberg-Fritsch Affair
January 1938
Hitler Youth Law (makes membership of Hitler Youth compulsory)
March 1939
Reich Security Head Office founded (centralises all security/terror in Third Reich)
September 1939
Sports Palace Speech in Berlin (Hitler outlined his intentions to destroy the ‘Marxist threat’
February 1933
Emergency Decree for the Protection of People and State
28 February 1933
Reichstag Fire
27 February 1933
Emergency Decree for the Protection of People and State (took away all personal liberties and established the platform for dictatorship)
28 February 1933
Himmler (leader of SS) set up Dachau in Bavaria
March 1933
By this time, the Nazis controlled the parliamentary assemblies of all regions
April 1933
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (made legal the purge of areas of the civil service which had ‘unreliable’ political elements).
April 1933
Nazi Book Burning (burning the books of ‘forbidden’ authors in Berlin)
10 May 1933
Rohm contacts the Defence Minister, Blomberg, demanding that the SA be allowed to take over national defence (placed Hitler in a position to choose to support either the armed forces of the SA)
February 1934
Formation of the Security Service (SD) of the SS, under Heydrich
1931
Himmler placed in overall control of policing in Germany (he now controlled the security service - Sipo -, the regular police - Orpo - and the security police - SD).
1936
Law to Reduce Unemployment (introduced ‘Arbeitdienst’ - work schemes)
June 1933
Regime launched the ‘Battle for Production’ to increase gain production and help peasantry
1934-5
Regime introduced Conscription
1935
Hjalmar Schacht appointed as President of Reichsbank
May 1933
Hjalmar Schacht made Minister of Economics (and soon after introduces the ‘New Plan’
1934
Schacht negotiates bilateral trade agreements with countries in South America and South-East Europe
1934
Schacht resigned (removal of a constraint within the party on radicalism)
1937
Trade Unions ransacked
2 May 1933 (day after May Day holiday)
The Hossbach Conference
November 1937
Hitler holds his last ever Cabinet meeting
February 1938
By this time, the Conservative establishments were very much tied to the regime
Mid-1930s
The Concordat signed
June 1933
Banning of crucifixes in schools
1935
Banning of Catholic Youth Groups
1936
Membership of the Hitler Youth was declared compulsory (in the ‘Hitler Youth Law’)
March 1939
Founding of the Adolf Hitler Schools (training the political leaders of the next generation)
1937
Creation of the Women’s Front
May 1933
Nazis promise the creation of a Volksgemeinschaft
March 1935
Nazi autoban programme accelerates
1936
Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
March 1936
Anschluss with Austria
March 1938
Sudetenland crisis & Munich Conference (gives Sudetenland to Germany, with Hitler promising this will be his last territorial demand)
September 1938
Germany invades Czechoslovakia (last democracy in Central Europe is destroyed)
March 1939
Germany laucnhes Blitzkrieg on Poland
September 1939
SOPADE report documents that “everyone is afraid of saying a word too many and landing oneself in danger”
1938
Dates of the propaganda films (directed by Leni Rienfenstahl) ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’
1936
1938
Hitler buys the Volkischer Beobachter to circulate Nazi Anti-Semitic views (becomes the original propaganda organ of the Nazi Party)
1923
During this time, Germany had the largest radio audience in Europe (nearly 1 in 4 households had one)
1930s
By this year, the regime could broadcast to over 16 million Germans via radio
1939
In this time period, the state invested 5 billion Reichsmarks into Arbeitdienst programe (work schemes - trying to tackle unemployment)
1932-5
This period saw the collapse of agricultural prices - peasantry suffered
1929-33
‘Battle for Production’ launched (attempt to increase the production of grain due to Germany not having much foreign currency - not successful)
1934-5
Nazis created 6 million jobs for the unemployed in this year
1933
Between these years, unemployment in the working population decreased by 18.5%
1933 - 1936
Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
April 1933
Rearmament is launched (expansion of army to 500,000, new Luftwaffe and Navy)
March 1935
Hitler takes over leadership of the Armed Forces
27 January 1938
Reichstag passes the ‘Law Concerning Measures for the Defence of the State’ (essentially legalising the NoLK)
3 July 1934
Hitler justifies his actions in the Night of the Long Knives to the Reichstag
13 July 1934
Goebbels’s ‘Extraordinary Radio Law’ (outlawed the reception of foreign radio signals)
1939
Lebensborn programme launched
1935 (extended in 1939)
Honour Cross of German Motherhood introduced
1938
Marriage Law
1935
Women’s Front set up by Robert Ley
1933
Launch of the People’s Car
1938
