World War 2

  • Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg

  • Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

  • Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler

  • Armed forces must now swear allegiance to Hitler

    Armed forces must now swear allegiance to Hitler
  • Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

    Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
  • Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew

  • Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions

  • Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

    Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
  • Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens

    Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
  • Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • Flossenburg concentration camp opens

    Flossenburg concentration camp opens
  • 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled

  • Germans occupy Czechoslovakia

  • Ravensbruck concentration camp opens

    Ravensbruck concentration camp opens
  • Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

  • Neuengamme concentration camp opens

    Neuengamme concentration camp opens
  • Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

    Germany invades the Soviet Union
  • Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered

    Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered
  • Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp Summer Deportation of Jews to killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, and Poland; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Kremenets, Lachva, Mir, and Tuchin

  • German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad

    German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
  • Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp

  • D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy

    D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy
  • Last Jews deported from Terezin to Auschwitz

  • Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

  • Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck

    Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck