Hitler

The Times Before The First Deportation

  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.

  • burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.

  • Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.

  • Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, for women

  • Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.

  • Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters

  • Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine.

  • Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.

  • Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses.

  • Jews are forbidden to be outdoors

    8p.m. in winter and 9p.m. in summer.
  • Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews.

  • Evacuation of Jews from Vienna.

  • Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.

  • Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.

  • First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.