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Events relating to germany
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write Mahagonny Songspiel for the Baden-Baden music festival
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality
In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme
Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, designed by Mies van der Rohe, le Corbusier, Gropius and others, sets a defining standard for International Modernism
Marcel Breuer, working at the Bauhaus, designs the classic version of his tubular-steel cantilever chair their homesr
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin
The SS, which has evolved from Hitler's personal bodyguard, is put under the command of Heinrich Himmler
Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army
Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair
Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star
The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig
Adolf Hitler puts Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Nazi party's propaganda campaign
The Allies withdraw their occupying forces from Germany's Rhineland, five years ahead of schedule
The Nazis become the second largest party in the Reichstag, winning 107 seats
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels makes Der Führer a compulsory term for Hitler in the Nazi party
Adolf Hitler finally exchanges Austrian for German nationality, just in time to run for the German presidency
Adolf Hitler stands for election as president of the German republic and wins 36% of the vote
Winning 230 seats in the election, the Nazis become the largest party in the Reichstag (albeit not with a majority)
Unemployment in Germany rises during the world-wide depression to the unprecedented level of 6 million
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of the German republic
German chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the sterilization of carriers of hereditary mental diseases, in one of his government's first pieces of legislation
The electoral campaign for a new Reichstag, demanded by Hitler, is conducted with escalating Nazi violence
The burning of the Reichstag during the German election enables Adolf Hitler to introduce emergency measures restricting liberty
Heinrich Himmler sets up the first Nazi concentration camp, at Dachau near Munich
Adolf Hitler puts a bill before the first meeting of the newly elected Reichstag, giving himself unrestricted powers
