Nazi Concentration Camps Begin Operating
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples, Human Rights, Holocaust
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
- Geographical Location: Germany
- Date: March, 1933
Article abstract: The opening of Nazi Germany’s first concentration camps was an early step in a destruction process that culminated in the Holocaust.
Summary of Event
Although the Nazis never gained a majority in any freely contested election, their control of Germany began on January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler was named chancellor by Paul von Hindenburg, president of the Weimar Republic. Six months later, the Nazis stood as the only legal political party in Germany, Hitler’s decrees were as good as law, basic civil rights had been suspended, and...
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