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Hitler becomes the chancellor
The nazi party assumes control of Germany when President Paul von Hindenburg. The Nazis and Germans are part of the coalition party, The enabling act allowed him to enact laws, including violating the Weimar constitution without parliament or the president's approval -
Hitler Abolishes the Office of President
Hitler gets rid of the president and declares himself Fiihrer and chancellor of the German Reich and people. He is now the dictator of Germany. He doesn't have to listen to the law or state. -
Reichstag speech
Hitler tells Germans about the outbreak of war and tells them it will be the end of European Jewry. The Nazis ordered anti-Jewish boycotts. It was the nationwide pogroms (Kristallnacht) in 1938 and the outbreak of war in 1939 that marked the transition in Nazi racial antisemitism toward genocide. -
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 in the ghetto. A resistance started when they went to the ghettos and worked underground, focused on education and welfare. -
Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office, convenes the Wannsee Conference in a villa outside Berlin. At this conference, he presents plans to coordinate a European-wide “Final Solution of the Jewish Question”. The plan was a physical annihilation of Jews. At some still undetermined time in 1941, Hitler authorized this European-wide scheme for mass murder. -
Deportation of Dutch Jews
They began the deportation of Dutch Jews from Westbrook, Ammsfort, and Vught camps in the Netherlands to killing centers. By September 3, 1944, around 100 trains have carried more than 100,000 people to Auschwitz. About 60,000 Jews to Auswichtz and 34,00 Jews to Sobibor. -
Kielce Progrom
A violent massacre of Jews in the southeastern Polish town of Kielce. False allegations of Jews using the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes witht the intent of discouraging -
US Ratifies Genocide Convention
US President Ronald Reagan signs the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. The US faced strong opponents and feared it would infringe US national sovereignty. Senator William Proxmire from Wisconsin gave over 3,000 speeches advocating it.