- Von Papen agreed to become vice-chancellor to Hitler and the rising Nazi party in 1932, believing he could control Hitler, but Hitler's thirst for power grew rapidly. - After the Reichstag fire in 1933 and the Enabling Act passing in March 1933, Hitler seized total dictatorial power and suspended citizens' basic rights, allowing arbitrary arrests and imprisonment without trial. - The Nazi regime quickly implemented the first instances of discrimination and exclusion of Jews from society through the boycott of Jewish stores and dismissal of Jewish workers from their jobs in April 1933. This marked the beginning of over 400 anti-Jewish laws that systematically stripped Jews of their rights and livelihoods in Germany.