Adolf Hitler gets appointed Chancellor of Germany.
40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
Jews not allowed national health insurance.
Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.
Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
Hans Frank appointed Nazi Gauleiter (governor) of Poland.
Deportation of 29,000 German Jews from Baden, the Saar, and Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France.
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "Now judgment has begun and it will reach its conclusion only when knowledge of the Jews has been erased from the earth."
German Jews ordered into forced labor.
French Marshal Petain issues a radio broadcast approving collaboration with Hitler
SS Einsatzgruppe B reports a tally of 45,476 Jews killed.
