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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor (prime minister) and the Nazis delcare that they will supsend civil liberties "temporarily"
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The Nazis set up the first concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. 200 communists are the first inmates.
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The Nazis begin to burn books in Berlin and throughout Germany containing "dangerous" information against Nazi beliefs.
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Hitler combines the positions of the chancellor and the president to become the ultimate leader of Germany called "Fuhrer" after German President von Hindenburg dies.
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German voters vote 90% "Yes" to approve of Hitler's new powers.
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Nazi persecution of Jews intensifies and Jews are deprived of citizenship and many basic rights.
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The Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. Jews were not allowed to go out until the event is over.
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German troops gain control of Austria and add it to Germany.
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Nazis destroy the Jewish synagogue in Nuremberg.
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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Jews must carry ID cards and Jewish passports that are marked with a large red "J"
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Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland.
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"Night of the Broken Glass." Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria - 30,000 Jews arrested.
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Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht.
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Jewish students are expelled and removed from all non-Jewish German schools.
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Jews are forced to shut down Jewish businesses and sell them and hand over securities and jewels.
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Germany takes over Czechoslovakia and invade Poland.
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Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; they are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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German Jews are forbidden to own radios. Police confiscated radios from Jews.
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Jews over the age of 10 are required to wear yellow stars of David.
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Jews were sent to concentration camps.
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First deportation of German Jews into Poland.
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Jews forced into ghettos.
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Nazis invade Soviet Union.
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Nazi Officials discuss "Final Solution" - their plan to exterminate all European Jews - to government officials.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
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World War II is over and the Nazis are defeated.
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Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes against Jews.
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The United Nations establishes a safe homeland for Jews in the British-controlled state of Palestine, which becomes the state of Israel in 1948.
