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Adolph Hitler Appointed Chancellor
The Nazi Party assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolph Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government in which Nazis and German Nationalist People's Party are apart of. -
Establishment of Dachau
Outside the town of Dachau, Germany the SS establishes its first concentration camp to incarcerate political opponents. It was the only concentration camp to remain in operation during the entire period of Nazi power. Hundreds of thousands of people died there. -
Enabling Acts
The Enabling Acts gave Hitler the right to enact new laws without interference from the president or the Reichstag (German parliament) for a period of four years. -
Nuremburg Laws
The Nuremburg Laws deprived Jewish people of German citizenship and restricted them of many things such as; marrying other races, attending German schools/universities, practice law/medicine, or even publish books. -
Kristallnacht
As a retaliation to a young Jewish person shooting and wounding a German Diplomat for mistreating his parents, Hitler started the "Night of Broken Glass." Nov 9-10, Nazi led mobs attacked Jewish communities all over Germany, Austria, and annexed portions of Czechoslovakia. -
Killing Operations Begin at Chelmno
Killing operations begin at the Chelmno killing center, located about 30 miles northwest of Lodz. The killing center operated from December 1941 until March 1943 and then briefly in June and early July 1944. It was created specifically to annihilate the Jewish population of the Wartheland including the inhabitants of the Lodz ghetto. -
Wannsee Conference (Final Solution)
During the Wannsee Conference they presented plans to coordinate a European-wide "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" to key officials from the German State and the Nazi Party. The "Final Solution" was the code name for the systematic, deliberate, physical annihilation of the European Jews. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
German troops and police entered the Warsaw Ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Jewish insurgents inside the ghetto resisted these efforts. This was the largest uprising by Jews during World War II and the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and deported surviving ghetto residents to concentration camps and killing centers.