32-45

1934

Aug 4, 1934

Adolph Hitler declares himself president First arrests in Germany

1935

Oct 12, 1935

No Jews" signs No jews in army

1936

Mar 7, 1936

Hitler's army invades the Rhineland. The first German Gypsies are arrested

1937

Jul 16, 1937

July 16 Buchenwald concentration camp opens. Jews can obtain passports for travel outside of Germany only in special cases.

1938

Jul 23, 1938

Jews must carry identification cards Germany annexes Austria.

1939

Sep 1, 1939

The German army invades Poland Hitler orders all menatlly or phically handycaped people put into camps.

1940

Nov 15, 1940

German army invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France. The Warsaw ghetto is established.

1941

Mar 22, 1941

The German army invades the Soviet Union. Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools.

1942

Jan 16, 1942

Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.

1943

Jun 13, 1943

The Nazis order all of the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union destroyed. The inmates at Treblinka rebel.

1944

Jul 20, 1944

The German army invades Hungary. German officers fail and are caught in an attempt to assassinate Hitler.

1945

Apr 30, 1945

Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin Germany surrenders and war in Europe is ended.

1936

May 10, 2013

The first German Gypsies are arrested Olympics in berlin anti Jew signs