Themes

Read the hundred days by subject. Each theme lists only the days that touch it, in order.

Taking power 40 days
Appointments, the cabinet, Hindenburg, and the government’s own moves.
Laws and decrees 53 days
The emergency decrees and laws that took apart the Weimar constitution.
Terror 51 days
SA and SS violence, arrests, improvised camps and Dachau.
Persecution of Jews 45 days
Boycott, dismissals and exclusion from professions, schools and clubs.
The opposition 50 days
Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists and others, banned and arrested.
Elections and parliament 24 days
The March election, the Reichstag, the state parliaments, the Enabling Act.
Propaganda and the press 68 days
Goebbels, newspaper bans, radio and staged events.
Coordination 58 days
Bringing the states, associations and institutions into line (Gleichschaltung).
Culture and science 53 days
Purges of universities and the arts, and the start of emigration.
Churches 19 days
The Protestant and Catholic churches and the new regime.
Work and the economy 37 days
Unemployment, business, wages and the destruction of the trade unions.
Everyday life 98 days
Cinema, sport, weather, shops and radio: life carrying on.
The world watching 53 days
Foreign reaction, and what was happening elsewhere at the same time.
Refusal and exile 14 days
People who resisted, refused or fled.