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Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. -
Concentration Camps open
A place where Jewish people were held to be tortured and die. -
Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany. -
Restricted jews from learning, protesting and moving up in society
Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions -
Gestapo is formed
The Gestapo was Nazi Germany's infamous political police force. -
Public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state
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Jews losing rights
Law stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship -
Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler
Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him -
Jews Reestricted
Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces -
anti-Jewish racial laws
anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag -
Jew definitions
Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew -
Jewish doctors forbidden to practice
Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions -
German March
Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty -
Himmler promoted
Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police -
New Camps
Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens -
Jesse Owens Competes in Olympic Games
African Americans dominated the popular track and field events many American journalists hailed the victories of Jesse Owens and other blacks as a blow to the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. -
Rome-Berlin Axis
Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Open
SS authorities open the Buchenwald concentration camp for male prisoners in east-central Germany together with its many satellite camps -
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. -
German Invasion
German forces broke through Polish defenses along the border and quickly advanced on Warsaw, the Polish capital but, after heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans within a month of the German attack soviet forces quickly annexed most of eastern Poland, while western Poland remained under German occupation until 1945 -
Poland Ghetto
First Polish ghetto established in Piotrków -
Imprisonment
Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt) sealed: 165,000 people in 1.6 square miles -
More camps
Concentration camp established at Auschwitz -
Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people
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Education Refusal Widens
Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools. -
Robbed, Then Killed
Approximately ten thousand Jews, who had arrived in the Lódz ghetto some six months earlier from Germany, Luxembourg, Vienna, and Prague, are deported to Chelmno. Their baggage is confiscated before they board the train. -
Gypsies To Birkenau
All Gypsies in Germany and Nazi occupied countries, with few exceptions, are arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Rebellion
The inmates at Treblinka rebel. -
More Land, More People to Kill
The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews. Over 430,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most are gassed and killed -
Fireworks Display
The prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebel and blow up one crematorium. -
The Fuhrer Falls
Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin rather than be caught by the advancing Soviet army. -
Freedom For All
Troops from the United States liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.