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1933
 
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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of the German republic       
1933
 
   
German chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the sterilization of carriers of hereditary mental diseases, in one of his government's first pieces of legislation      
1933
 
     
Prohibition is lifted in the USA when the Twenty-First Amendment repeals the Eighteenth, which has been in force for 13 years        
1933
 
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The electoral campaign for a new Reichstag, demanded by Hitler, is conducted with escalating Nazi violence       
1933
 
   
Polish cryptographers succeed in breaking some of the Enigma code used by the German military      
1933
 
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The burning of the Reichstag during the German election enables Adolf Hitler to introduce emergency measures restricting liberty      
The Reichstag burning, 1933
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1933
 
    
President Roosevelt gives the first of his many 'fireside chats' to the US nation on radio       
1933
 
    
Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit       
1933
 
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Heinrich Himmler sets up the first Nazi concentration camp, at Dachau near Munich       
1933
 
    
The Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss suspends parliament and subsequently outlaws the Nazi party