HITLER’S RISE TO POWER July 1932: Nazi vote peaks at 37%. January 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Hitler Chancellor of Germany February 27, 1933: Reichstag Fire; Hitler outlaws the Communist Party. March 23, 1933: Hitler’s “Enabling Act.” September 1935: Nuremberg Party Congress proclaims rearmament and strips Jews of citizenship. March 1938: Anschluss with Austria. September 1938: At the “Munich Conference,” Britain and France allow Hitler to annex the Sudetenland. November 9, 1938: In Kristallnacht, all synagogues are burned, and most Jewish-owned businesses, looted.

Joseph Goebbels (aka Löbsack) addresses a Berlin rally in 1932

Hitler with young Stormtroopers in the Munich Party Headquarters, 1932

“Our last hope: HITLER” (March 1932)

Ernst Thälmann at a Communist Party rally in Berlin in 1932

“In our deepest need, Hindenburg chose Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor. You too should vote for List #1” “The Reich will never be destroyed – if you remain united and faithful”

The Reichstag burns, 27 February 1933: The Nazis falsely depicted the deranged arsonist as a KPD agent

SA round-up of Communists after the Reichstag Fire

A newly deputized SS trooper patrols the streets with a Prussian policeman on election day, March 5, 1933, when the Nazis won 44% of the vote

Stormtroopers guard the new concentration camp at Oranienburg, 1933

STORMTROOPERS BRUTALIZED MANY THOUSANDS OF “ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE” “I am the biggest pig in town, because I only go out with Jews.” SPD politicians, forced to remove anti-Hitler grafitti

Hitler demands an Enabling Act, 23 March 1933: Only the SPD voted against this grant of absolute power for 4 years

“German Students March Against the Ungerman Spirit:” A book burning on 10 May 1933

Reichstag delegates hail their Leader, January 30, 1934 (all other parties were dissolved by June 1933)

The Nazi cartoonist Josef Plank celebrates the flight from Germany of Jews and leftists in 1933/34

“None shall go hungry! None shall freeze! Winter Aid of the German People, 1934/35”

The Animals’ Friend (postcard, 1934)

The Children’s Friend (1934)

Luftwaffe bombers and Wehrmacht tanks on display for the Nazi Party “Congress of Freedom,” Nuremberg, September 1935.

The Nuremberg Laws (Sep. 1935) stripped Jews of citizenship

Hitler at the height of his popularity, Berlin, January 1936

“One People, One Reich, One Leader!” (Anschluss referendum campaign, April 1938)

The Munich Conference, 29 September 1938: Neville Chamberlain agrees with Hitler and Mussolini that Germany should annex the Sudetenland

The Implementation of the Munich Pact

The Synagogue in Siegen after Reichskristallnacht, November 10, 1938

The New Synagogue of Berlin, November 10, 1938