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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler
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Armed forces must now swear allegiance to Hitler
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Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
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Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions
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Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Flossenburg concentration camp opens
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17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
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Ravensbruck concentration camp opens
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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Neuengamme concentration camp opens
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Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered
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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
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German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
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Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy
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Last Jews deported from Terezin to Auschwitz
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Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march
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Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck
