1932-1945 Timeline

Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

Feb 25, 1932

Hindenburg reelected President

Apr 10, 1932

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Dachau concentration camp opens

Mar 22, 1933

Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".

Jan 1, 1934

Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler

Aug 2, 1934

Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

May 31, 1935

Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

Sep 15, 1935

Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens

Jul 5, 1936

Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

Oct 25, 1936

Buchenwald concentration camp opens

Jul 15, 1937

The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

Nov 8, 1937

17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled

Oct 28, 1938

Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands

Nov 12, 1938

Germans occupy Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star

Nov 23, 1939

Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

May 20, 1940

German Jews ordered into forced labor.

Mar 7, 1941

Germany invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally of 229,052 Jews killed.

Jan 31, 1942

Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.

Sep 18, 1942

First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto

Jan 18, 1943

Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz

Mar 22, 1943

First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totaling 5,200 persons

Apr 14, 1944

The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz

Oct 28, 1944

Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews

Jan 6, 1945

Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz

Jan 18, 1945