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Hitler was appointed chancellor by Paul von Hindenburg. and soon after, spoke with the German Parliament for the first time. Also at this meeting, the Enabling Act was passed.
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The Enabling Act gave Hitler the power to rule with emergency decree.
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The Nazis put signs up on the windows of Jewish shops that encouraged the Germans not to shop there. They did this hoping to start a boycott against the Jews. But, Germans continued shopping at Jewish shops, and the boycott was called off.
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The Nuremberg Laws refused German citizenship to Jews and other people with German or kindred blood. They also said that Jews could not marry anyone else except Jews.
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Nazi Germany decided to include Austria into their reign, and they spread the Holocaust to the Jews in Austria, which tried to leave but couldn't because they needed exit visas and had to pay a large fee.
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Kristallnacht (The Night of the Broken Glass) was when the Nazis burned Jewish buildings, and killed and sent Jews to concentration camps.
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The ship, the St. Louis , sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying hundreds of Jews, but the Cuban government didn't let them off on their ports.
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Germany invaded Poland, which was the start of Europe getting into World War II.
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The German authorities sealed off the Warsaw ghetto, which left them without many supplies and hundreds of thousands of Jews.
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and following that about a quarter of the Jews from the Holocaust were shot and killed.
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The Allies were on offense, and they drove back the German forces.
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Germany surrendered and World War II ended.
