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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
The Nazis organised a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. -
Hitler becomes Führer.
hitler planned to use the death of the german president as an opportunity to gain power. -
Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed
The nazis made new laws that made it so the jewish could not get married or have sexual relations -
Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass
On the night of November 9, 1938 all the police and the government planned a massive, coordinated attack on Jews. They targeted Synagogues, homes and businesses. The fire brigade and people just stood by and watched it happen.
The next day 25,000 jews were sent off to concentration camps they often brutalized and some were beaten to death. -
The Krakow Ghetto is sealed off containing 70,000 Jews
Nazies forced the jews to relocate to The Krakow Ghetto. The jews were forced to make the walls and the polish were forced to seal the doors and windows. They were forced to carry identification papers and used for manual labour. -
Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for Final Solution
Order from Hermann Göring to Reinhard Heydrich to send money and materials to prepare for the final solution (eradicate of all the Jews) in all the territories of Europe under German occupation -
German Jews ordered to wear yellow stars.
The German Jew were ordered to wear yellow stars to identify them -
Belzec extermination camp becomes operational in Poland
The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B. -
SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek
German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz. -
Over 9,000 jew were gassed and burned in one day
Auschwitz-Birkenau records its highest-ever daily number of persons gassed and burned at just over 9,000. Six huge pits are used to burn bodies, as the number exceeds the capacity of the crematories.
