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