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Hitler's Power
Adolf Hitler came into power as chancellor of Germany. -
Enabling Act passed
This act allowed Hitler to have elevated rights and be able to keep elevating them, It also esatblished a Nazi army and police force. -
Hitler becomes Fuhrer
The German president, von Hindenberg, dies leaving Hitler as Fuhrer. On August 19th, he recieved a 90% "yes" vote from the German citizens for his increase of power. -
The Nuremberg Race Laws are passed
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. -
Heinrich Himmler in power
Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German police. -
Eternal Jew Exhibition
The Nazis, as propaganda, opened exhibits in Munich showing the "average" Jew and all of the prejudices that are attached to them. They showed them as greedy and dirty and of little value compared to the "superior" Aryan race. -
Kristallnacht- The Night of Broken Glass
Nazi's marched into Jewish towns and completely wiped out Jewish synagogues and homes as well as taking over 25,000 men to be placed in concentration camps. In the days following, the Germans charged the Jews one billion marks for the damage that followed. -
Germany invades Poland
Poland had the largest population of Jews in Europe with over 3.35 million Jewish citizens. -
Declaration of War
Following the invasion of Poland, which Great Britain had claimed as the stopping point of expansion, the French along with the British declared war on Germany. -
France surrenders
France signed an armistice with Hitler after the take over of Paris by the Nazi forces. -
Star of David
German Jews are required to wear a yellow star of David with the word "Jude" on all of their clothing. -
Sobibor
Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered. -
Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
SS and Police Chief Jurgen Stroop proclaimed, "180 Jews, bandits, and subhumans were destroyed. The Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no more." -
Death March
Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria. -
Evacuation
Auschwitz is evacuated, which contained over 62,000 Jews.
