Small chronicle to put the editorials in the historical context
4th January: Weimar Republic: Adolf Hitler and Franz von Papen agree on preparations for a government takeover.
30th January: Deutsches Reich: (seizure of power) Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor.
31th January: Deutsches Reich: In Moessingen finds the only major strike against the "seizure of power" Adolf Hitler instead.
February 1: German Empire: Reichstag at the request of Hitler from the Reich President Paul von Hindenburg disbanded
February 3: Hitler's first speech to commanders of the Reichswehr (goal of foreign policy: Habitat in the east and its ruthless Germanization) - Liebmann recording
4. February: Ordinance of the President of the Reich to protect the German people; the fundamental rights of Weimar Constitution, in particular freedom of assembly and the press are restricted
20. February: Secret meeting of February 20, 1933 Hitler with industrialists for financial campaign support
27. February: Reichstag fire on the night of February 28th
28. February Reichstag Fire Decree
March 3: The chairman of the KPD, Ernst Thalmann is arrested.
4. March: United States: Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the 32nd U.S. President
Austria: "Self-elimination of the parliament", Beginning of Austrofascism
German Empire: The SPD newspaper Forward appears for the last time.
5. March: parliamentary elections, the NSDAP achieved over 43% of the vote.
March 13: Construction of the Reich Ministry of Publication and Propaganda
March 15: Austria: The Nationalrat is prevented by the federal government from using arms.
March 20: That Dachau concentration camp is established.
21. March: Day from Potsdam, State act in the garrison Church
March 23: The German Reichstag passes it enabling act.
27. March: Japan declares its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
March 31: Austria: Die DollfussGovernment prohibits the Republican Protection Association.
German Empire: Im Imperial Law Gazette will the Lex van der Lubbe published a retrospectively applicable criminal law on Reichstag fire.
April 1: Organized by the National Socialists Boycott of Jewish businesses, Law firms and medical practices.