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Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers
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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany
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Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land
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Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
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Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property
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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
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Hermann Göring takes charge of resolving the "Jewish Question."
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First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off
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German Jews ordered into forced labor
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Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for Final Solution.
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Jews take there are placed in mobile gas vans and driven to a burial place while carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust is fed into the sealed rear compartment, killing them
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Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.