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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       
1933
 
    
Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth')       
1933
 
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Adolf Hitler puts a bill before the first meeting of the newly elected Reichstag, giving himself unrestricted powers       
1933
 
    
Gustav Krupp and his son Alfried, Germany’s main manufacturers of armaments, join the Nazi party       
1933
 
    
In My Life and Hard Times James Thurber's publishes an affectionate account of his family, including the night the bed fell on his father