Hitler Flashcards
The Great Depression
1929-33
Reichstag elections
1932 July
The Nazis emerged as the largest party in Reichstag
Hitler appointed Chancellor
1933 January 30th
Reichstag fire
1933 February 27th
Communist blamed
1933 March 5
Last elections according to Weimar Consitution
Day at Potsdam
1933 March 21
Enabling Act passed
1933 March 23rd
1934 August 2
- Death of Hindenburg
- Oath of loyalty by the army
1934 June 30th
Night of the Long Knives
= destruction of SA by SS
Hjalmar Schact as President of the Reichbank
1933 March
Appointment of Schact as Minister of Economics
1934 July
The New Plan introduced
1934 September
Four-year plan established under Göring
1936 October
Resignation of Schact as Minister of Economics
1937 November
War economy decrees
1939 December
Rationalisation decree issued by Hitler
1941 December
Appointment of Albert Speer as Minister of Rearmament
1942 February
Peak of German munitions production
1944 August
The burning of the books
1933 May
Reich Ministry of Education created
1934
First official boycott of Jewish shops and professions
1933 April 1
Nuremberg Race Laws introduced
1935 September 15
Kristallnacht: anti-Jewish pogrom
1938 November 9-10
Wannsee Conference:‘final solution’ to exterminate the Jewish people
1942 January
Appointment of Heinrich Himmler as Chief of the German police
1936 June
Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
1938
Stauffenberg: Bomb Plot
1944 July 20
Mass arrests by Gestapo of socialists and communists
1935
Red Orchestra discovered and put down
1942
White Rose student group: distributions of anti-nazi leaflets
1942-3
