Hitler
Timeline
Hitler’s Domestic Policy
| date | event | comment | significance |
| 1925 | |||
| SS (Hitler’s guard unit) formed | Act as Hitler’s personal bodyguard | Hitler did not fully trust SA | |
| 1932 | |||
| SD (security service) formed | Intelligence service of SS | ||
| 1933 | |||
| January 30th | Hitler becomes Chancellor | Coalition government; Göring in charge of Police, Frick – Minister of Interior | NSDAP members rally, frighten left-wing opponents. |
| February 22nd | Göring replaces police chiefs with SA or NSDAP | Legalized violence against opposition: com,socialists trade unionists | Destroyed offices, smashed printing presses, set up concentration camps |
| February 27th | Reichstag Fire | Emergency Decree | Imprisonment of political opponents |
| March 5th | Nazis – 43.9% | Needed 2/3 to pass legislation to gain control | Arrest communists, socialists forbidden to vote |
| April 7th | Laws against political opposition and Jews | Jews from Civil Service and legal profession | |
| May 1st | International Labor Day | ||
| June 22nd | SDP outlawed | ||
| July | Center Party and BVP dissolved themselves | No more political parties to oppose Nazis | |
| July 6th | Hitler pronounces that National Socialist Rev. is over | SA no longer auxiliary police | |
| 1934 | |||
| Himmler takes over Gestapo | Prussia secret state police of Göring | ||
| February 1st | Röhm proposes SA and SS unification | Generals horrified | |
| February 28th | Hitler suppresses idea | SA would not be given military role | Army leaders afraid of violent coup |
| June 17th | Von Papen Speech | Hitler needs to prevent a 2nd revolution by the SA | Hitler had to act; win Army and conservatives support in the Presidential election, when Hindenburg dead |
| June 30th | Night of the Long Knives | SA purge, Röhm arrested | New oath of loyalty to Hitler |
| July | Theodor Eicke appointed Inspector of Concentration Camps | Every camp run by the Dachau model | Trained SS camp guards to be brutal as the system they enforced |
| 1936 | |||
| June | Himmler appointed the Chief of the German Police | HeydrichÞ charge of Security Police (incl. Gestapo) | |
| 1939 | |||
| November | Waffen – SS formed |
