Holocaust - Timeline - 1936

February 10

The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

March

The SS creates the Deathshead division to guard concentration camps.

March 7

German troops occupy the Rhineland.

June 17

Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.

July 12,1936

Prisoners and civilian workers began construction of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen near Berlin.

August 1

Opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin. Anti-Semitic posters were temporarily removed.

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