March
Most "rough" concentration camps within Prussia are dissolved during the spring.
April
Those responsible for mistreatment in the concentration camp Stettin are sentenced to several years of imprisonment.
April 12
Edict issued by the Justice department against the "improper usage of protective custody" (valid until 1938).
April 20
Himmler is made Chief of the Gestapo and appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of the Gestapo in Prussia.
April 23
Concentration camps Sonnenburg and Brandenburg are closed.
May
Himmler commissions Eicke to reorganize all concentration camps. Dachau becomes the obligatory example.
May 25
The camps in the Emsland are placed under the jurisdiction of the Justice department. The SA provides the guards.
June 30
The SA camp at Oranienburg becomes a federal concentration camp.
July
Following removal of power from the SA, the SS is assigned the responsibility for the concentra- tion camps. At the end of 1934, the concentration camp guard association becomes a special arm of the SS.
July 7
Eicke becomes "Inspector of Concentration Camps and of SS Guard Associations."
July 20
The SS becomes an independent organization of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party), reporting directly to Hitler.
December 10
All concentration camps are placed under the "Inspekteur der KL" (Inspector for Concentration Camps, or IKL) reporting to SS Headquarters. (Exception: The concentration camp Kislau remains under the Interior Ministry of Baden.)
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