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Dachau ( UK: / ˈdæxaʊ /, /- kaʊ /; US: / ˈdɑːxaʊ /, /- kaʊ /) [ 3][ 4] was one of the first [ a] concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents. [ 6]
March 9, 1933 (Thursday) The government of the German state of Bavaria was overthrown by Nazi troops, on the grounds that Minister-President Heinrich Held was unable to maintain order. Governance of the former "free state" was assumed by Nazi MP Franz Ritter von Epp, whom Hitler appointed as Reichsstatthalter.
1 March – Hundreds are arrested as the Nazis round up their political opponents. 5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies. 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to ...
January–March. March 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd U.S. president. John Nance Garner becomes the 32nd U.S. vice president. January 5. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the U.S (1923–1929) dies of coronary thrombosis in Northampton, Massachusetts.
t. e. Hitler's Reichstag speech promoting the bill was delivered at the Kroll Opera House, following the Reichstag fire. The Enabling Act of 1933 ( German: Ermächtigungsgesetz ), officially titled Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich ( lit. 'Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich ' ), [ 1] was a law that gave the German ...
1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1933rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 933rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1930s decade.
The 100th day of his presidency was June 12, 1933. On July 25, 1933, Roosevelt gave a radio address in which he coined the term "first 100 days." [1] [3] Looking back, he began, "we all wanted the opportunity of a little quiet thought to examine and assimilate in a mental picture the crowding events of the hundred days which had been devoted to ...
The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Adolf Hitler 's Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Examples of Nazi violence and harassment included placing and throwing stink bombs, picketing, shopper ...