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The Nazi Party came in Power on January of 1933
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Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
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Nazis issue a Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
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The 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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Nazis Open the first Concentration Camp called "Dachau".
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Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
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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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Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
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SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
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The Nazis ban The Jews from serving in the military.
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Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors and thus temporarily refrain from actions against Jews.
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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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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Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.
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Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses.
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German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area.
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Romania introduces anti-Jewish measures restricting education and employment, then later begins "Romanianization" of Jewish businesses.
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430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
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3,600 Jews arrested in Paris.
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The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.
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German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
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Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek.
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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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In response to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, President Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau records its highest-ever daily number of persons gassed and burned at just over 9,000. Six huge pits are used to burn bodies, as the number exceeds the capacity of the crematories.
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Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
