Klaus Langer

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.

  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened.

  • Enabling Act.

  • first boycotts of Jewish businesses

  • Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.

  • Approval of the Education Law: it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.

  • Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.

  • Approval of the Press Censorship Law

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

  • Approval of the mandatory military service.216

  • Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.

  • approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.

  • Annexation of Austria

  • Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.

  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany.

  • Kristallnacht

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Germany invaded Western Europe.

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union

  • Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.

  • Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).

  • Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • Allied forces invaded North Africa

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

  • German defeat at Stalingrad

  • first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

  • Surrender of Italy.

  • Germany occupied Hungary

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.

  • Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.