WW2 timeline coley campbell By campbellcc Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg Jul 14, 1933 Law excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship. Jul 2, 1934 Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him. May 31, 1935 Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces Mar 7, 1936 Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty. Oct 25, 1936 Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis. Jul 15, 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp opens. May 22, 1938 Flossenburg concentration camp opens. Aug 3, 1938 italy enacts sweeping anti semitic laws Aug 8, 1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria Oct 28, 1938 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn. Nov 12, 1938 Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands Dec 12, 1938 One billion mark fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht Mar 15, 1939 Germans occupy Czechoslovakia. Sep 1, 1939 start of ww2 Oct 23, 1939 Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star. 1941 Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered. May 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union. Dec 11, 1941 United States declares war on Japan and Germany. 1942 Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin. 1943 Rescue of the Danish Jewry 1943 Himmler orders the liquidation of all ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union Oct 14, 1943 Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp 1944 Red Army repels Nazi forces. Sep 2, 1945 end of ww2 Sep 2, 1945 Japan surrenders; end of World War II