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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
President Hindenburg appoints Aldof Hitler Chancellor of Germany in hopes to get them out of depression -
Germans invade Poland
Germany invades Poland, which starts World War 2 -
Auschwitz Camp built
The Auschwitz concentration camp was an extermination camp built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War 2. It became the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime. -
Krakow Ghetto Established
German authorities announce, establish, and seal a ghetto in Krakow, Poland. Between 15,000 and 20,000 Jews are forced to live within the ghetto boundaries, which are enclosed by barbed-wire fences and, in places, by a stone wall. -
Jews forced to wear Jewish Badge
Reinhard Heydrich decrees that all Jews over six years of age in any German-annexed territory are to wear yellow star of David on their outer clothing in public at all times. -
Deportations of Jews
Aldof Hitler deports German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from the Greater German Reich to ghettos, shooting sites, concentration camps, and killing centers. -
Operation Reinhard
Heinrich Himmler plans Operation Reinhard... which will ultimately be responsible for the murder of approximately 1.7 million Jews, most of them Polish Jews. -
Stahlecker Report
SS-Brigadier General Walther Stahlecker submits his report on the killing of Jewish civilians in the northwestern region of the Soviet Union. The report documents the killing of more than 220,000 unarmed Jewish men, women, and children by men under his command between June 22 and October 15, 1941. -
Killing Operations Begin at Chelmno
SS and police authorities established the Chelmno killing center in order to annihilate the Jewish population of Wartheland. -
Death Penalty for Aiding Jews
If any non-Jew was caught hiding Jews, the protector and the Jew would get a severe punishment. Full warning -
Hitler Commits Suicide
As Soviet forces near his command bunker in central Berlin on April 30, 1945, Aldof Hitler commits suicide. Berlin falls to the Soviets within days.
