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Hitler
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. -
VOTE!
Reichstag elections: The Nazis gain 44 percent of the vote. -
Nazi Government wanted the Jews to suffer
The Nazi government declares that Jews are debarred from working in the civil service and strips them of their equal rights. -
Destruction
The Nazis burn thousands of anti-Nazi Jewish-authored and “degenerate” books. -
One-party state
Forced sterilization of German citizens with congenital disabilities begins. Germany is proclaimed a one-party state. -
A Pact
The German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws are enacted, defining who is a Jew according to racial theory, banning marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and making Jews second-class citizens. -
Treason
The German army enters the Rhineland violating the Treaty of Versailles. -
War
The Spanish Civil War begins. -
four year plan
The Four-Year Plan (the economic plan to prepare Germany for war) is unveiled. -
SIGNING THE PACT
Germany and Japan sign a military pact. -
Evil
Buchenwald (Germany) concentration camp is established. -
Kristallnacht
Nvember 7-10
The Kristallnacht Pogrom: Almost one hundred Jews are murdered and Jewish synagogues and Jewish businesses are burned and vandalized across Germany and Austria. -
Deaths
Civil administration (Generalgouvernement) is established in Poland; Polish elite are persecuted and murdered; slave labor is imposed on Jews between the ages of 14–60. -
Africa
Hitler presents Mussolini with the Madagascar Plan, a plan to deport all Jews to the island near the shores of Eastern Africa. -
Commissar Order
Commissar Order”: Prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Wehrmacht high command authorizes its soldiers to murder any “suspect” of opposition, mainly Jews and Communists, thereby making the German army involved in war crimes in the occupied territories.
