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The So-Called Coordination [Gleichschaltung]: First Meeting of the Coordinated Hamburg Citizenry under SA Supervision (May 10, 1933)
Hitler's new political order was based on the elimination of the party pluralism and federalism of the Weimar Republic. Starting in February 1933, Nazi leaders sought the so-called coordination [Gleichschaltung]....
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Advertisement by the Dehomag Company for Hollerith Punch-Cards, which were used in the 1933 Census (June 1933)
Censuses were not invented by the Nazi leadership; they had already been taken in the German Customs Union [Zollverein] during the nineteenth century. But in the new National Socialist police....
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Signing of the Reich Concordat (July 20, 1933)
The Reich Concordat of July 20, 1933, was supposed to regulate the relationship between the....
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SA Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm (1934)
Ernst Röhm (1887-1934) was a former Reichswehr officer and had been a member of the NSDAP since 1920. He had supported Hitler in the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch and was among the Führer’s closest friends.....
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Hotel Hanslbauer in Bad Wiessee: Scene of the Arrest of Ernst Röhm and his Followers (June 30, 1934)
The SA [Sturmabteilung or Storm Detachment] played a central role in the construction of Hitler's dictatorship. As the paramilitary wing of the NSDAP, it used the most brutal means to attack....
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The Front Page of the Völkischer Beobachter Justifies the Purge in Response to the So-Called Röhm Putsch (July 3, 1934)
Even before "Operation Hummingbird," Hitler saw to it that rumors were spread about a possible coup d'état being planned by the SA. The day after the purge, propaganda minster Joseph Goebbels declared....
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Robert Ley, Head of the German Labor Front (DAF) (1936)
Robert Ley joined the Nazi Party in the 1920s and held a series of party offices, including the position staff chief of NSDAP political organizations. From 1930 on, he was also a member of the Reichstag.....
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Leading Industrialist Carl Friedrich von Siemens and Banker Franz von Mendelssohn (November 7, 1933)
Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872-1941) was the youngest son of inventor and businessman Werner....
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Hitler Youth on the Occasion of the Referendum on the Merging of the Offices of Reich President and Reich Chancellor (August 19, 1934)
By the summer of 1933, Hitler had destroyed the constitutional, parliamentary, and federalist bases of the Weimar Republic and had created the basic structure of his Nazi dictatorship. He had combined....
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Adolf Hitler at the Lectern in the Kroll Opera House on the Occasion of the Extension of the "Enabling Act" (January 30, 1937)
The "Enabling Act" adopted on March 23, 1933, was initially valid for four years. During the....
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