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January 30
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg -
March 22
The first offical Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village loacated near Munich -
April 1
Boycott of Jewish shops and busniesses -
April 7
Laws of Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding Civil service, university, and state positions -
April 26
The Gestapo is establish by Herman Goering, minister of Prussia -
May 10
Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state -
July 14
Law exclusing East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship -
August 2
Hitler proclaims himself Fuührer und Reichskanzler. Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him -
May 31
Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces -
September 15
"Nuremberg Laws": first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag -
November 15
Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish granparents who identities as a Jew -
March 3
Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German instituions -
March 7
Germans march in the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty -
June 17
Reichführer SS Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police -
July 12
Sachsenhausen concentration camp open -
October 25
Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis -
July 15
Buchenwald concentration camp opens -
March 13
Anschluss: all anti-semitic decrees immediately applied in Austria -
April 26
Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich -
May 3
Flossenburg concentration camp ones -
July 6
Evian Conference held in Eivan, France on the problem of Jewish refugees -
August 1
Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emmigrantion in Vienna to increase the pace of forced -
August 3
Italy enacts sweeping anti-semitic laws -
August 8
Mauthausen concentration camps open in Atlanta -
September 30
Muinch Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Studetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia -
October 5
Following request by Swiss authorities, German mark all Jewish passports with a larger letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland -
Oct 28
17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are standed the frontier village of Zbaszyn -
Nov 7
Assassination in Paris of German diplomat Erns won by Hershcel Grynszpan -
WWII End & Start
Start: 1939
End: 1945