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Adolf Hitler gets appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
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Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
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Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
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Jews not allowed national health insurance.
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Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
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Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
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The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
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The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
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The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
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Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
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Hans Frank appointed Nazi Gauleiter (governor) of Poland.
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Deportation of 29,000 German Jews from Baden, the Saar, and Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "Now judgment has begun and it will reach its conclusion only when knowledge of the Jews has been erased from the earth."
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German Jews ordered into forced labor.
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French Marshal Petain issues a radio broadcast approving collaboration with Hitler
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SS Einsatzgruppe B reports a tally of 45,476 Jews killed.
