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Hitler becomes Chancellor
ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month. President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers and followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which had abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
The German government passes "Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases". The purpose of this legislation is the forced sterilization of those deemed to have a "hereditary disease". -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. It also provides for the castration of sex offenders. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army began on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. -
Reichszentrale is created
The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was the central instrument of Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality in Nazi Germany and the fight against abortion. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
the Night of Broken Glass was a pogrom against Jews carried out by paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
During World War II, the Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner which carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
also referred to as Jewish badges , are badges that Jews were ordered to wear in public during certain periods by the ruling Christians and Muslims, especially in Nazi Germany. -
Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact -
Madagascar Plan presented
The Madagascar Plan was a proposal by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. Franz Rademacher, -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. -
The Commissar Order
an order issued by the German High Command on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official name was Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars ( -
yabi bar
a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carby German forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing 33,771 Jews. -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last inmates gassed in Auschwitz I, in December 1942, were 300–400 members of the Auschwitz II Sonderkommando, who had been forced to dig up and burn the remains of that camp's mass graves, thought to hold 100,000 corpses. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. -
Boycott of jewish buisnesses
A defense reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods. which had been quickly started but abandoned in March 1933. It was largely unsuccessful, as the German population continued to use Jewish businesses, but revealed the intent of the Nazis to undermine the viability of Jews in Germany. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
On June 21, 1943, Heinrich Himmler issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
2,897 Romans were murdered in the gas chambers when the so-called “Zigeunerlager” was liquidated. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
Soviet forces continue to approach, SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. -
Auschwitz opens
The camps were opened over two years, 1940-1942. Auschwitz closed in January 1945 by the Soviet army. More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its satellite camps. Nearly 60,000 prisoners were forced to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Josef Mengele conducted inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. He was the most prominent of a group of Nazi doctors who conducted experiments that often caused great harm or death to the prisoners. -
Schutzstaffel Organized
The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. -
Adolf hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commited suicide. Berlin falls to the Soviets within days. -
International Military Tribunal
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. -
Adolf Eichmann captured
Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina on 11 May 1960 and subsequently found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicised trial in Jerusalem, where he was executed by hanging in 1962. -
Dr Josef Mengele Die
Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming in Brazil, his death was not verified until 1985.