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germany bank crisis
Germany's slump was aggravated by a severe banking crisis in the summer of 1931, which helped turn an ordinary recession into the Great Depression. The crisis was triggered by the collapse of Danatbank, one of Germany's four big universal banks. -
Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
the Nazi Party, assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government. The Nazis and the German Nationalist People's Party are members of the coalition. -
Death of German President von Hindenburg/ Hitler Abolishes the Office of President
German President Paul von Hindenburg dies. With the support of the German armed forces, Hitler becomes President of Germany. Later that month Hitler abolishes the office of President and declares himself Führer of the German Reich and People, in addition to his position as Chancellor -
Olympic Games Open in Berlin/
The Summer Olympic Games open in Berlin, attended by athletes and spectators from countries around the world. They removed anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities. In response to pressure from foreign Olympic delegations, Germany also included one part-Jew, the fencer Helene Mayer, on its Olympic team. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
SS authorities open the Buchenwald concentration camp for male prisoners in east-central Germany. Most of the early inmates at Buchenwald were political prisoners. However, in 1938, in the aftermath of Kristallnacht, German SS and police sent almost 10,000 Jews to Buchenwald where the camp authorities subjected them to extraordinarily cruel treatment and many died. -
German Annexation of Austria
On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss. A wave of street violence against Jewish persons and property followed in Vienna and other cities throughout the so-called Greater German Reich during the spring, summer, and autumn of 1938, culminating in the Kristallnacht riots and violence of November 9-10. -
Anti-Jewish Laws in Hungary
Hungary adopts comprehensive anti-Jewish laws and measures, excluding Jews from many professions.
Hungarian racial laws passed between 1938 and 1941 were modeled on Germany’s Nuremberg Laws. The laws reversed the equal citizenship status granted to Jews in Hungary in 1867. -
Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland
German troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, triggering World War II. In response to German aggression, Great Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany possessed overwhelming military superiority over Poland. -
Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people
It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there, -
United States declares war on Japan and Germany
e Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War. -
Death Penalty for Aiding Jews
ews in hiding and their protectors risked severe punishment if captured. In much of German-occupied eastern Europe, such activities were deemed capital offenses. This September 1942 German poster, issued during mass deportations to the Treblinka killing center, threatens death to anyone aiding Jews who fled the Warsaw ghetto. -
Rescue of the Danish Jewry
Danish citizens, managed to evacuate 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews, plus 686 non-Jewish spouses by sea to nearby neutral Sweden during the Second World War. -
Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria
SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. -
Hitler commits suicide/ end of ww2
Hitler committees suicided and the Japanese surrender and that is the end of ww2.
