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This section provides, in the style of a dictionary, explanations of significant political events, groupings and developments.
Enabling Acts) which in effect marked the end of democracy and the commencement of the dictatorial Third Reich. Exerting a form of totalitarian rule in Germany, which included a policy of violent discrimination against the Jewish population and, later, their transfer to concentration camps and their mass murder, Hitler was able to commence what he regarded as ‘rectifications’ of the Versailles Treaty, including reoccupation of