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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
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Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
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SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
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'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria.
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses.
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Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews.
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Nazis invade France (Jewish pop. 350,000), Belgium (Jewish pop. 65,000), Holland (Jewish pop. 140,000), and Luxembourg (Jewish pop. 3,500).
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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French Marshal Petain issues a radio broadcast approving collaboration with Hitler.
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German Jews ordered to wear yellow stars.
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The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec.
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In occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
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Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water.
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The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces.
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Diary entry by Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, concerning the fate of 2.5 million Jews originally under his jurisdiction - "At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews."
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Nazis occupy Hungary (Jewish pop. 725,000). Eichmann arrives with Gestapo "Special Section Commandos."
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A Red Cross delegation visits Theresienstadt after the Nazis have carefully prepared the camp and the Jewish inmates, resulting in a favorable report.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
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World War II Ends
