1932-1945 Timeline By yamaha350 Feb 25, 1932 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship Apr 10, 1932 Hindenburg reelected President Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany Mar 22, 1933 Dachau concentration camp opens Jan 1, 1934 Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". Aug 2, 1934 Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler May 31, 1935 Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces Sep 15, 1935 Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag Jul 5, 1936 Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens Oct 25, 1936 Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis Jul 15, 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp opens Nov 8, 1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. Oct 28, 1938 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled Nov 12, 1938 Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands Mar 15, 1939 Germans occupy Czechoslovakia Nov 23, 1939 Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star Apr 9, 1940 Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway May 20, 1940 Concentration camp established at Auschwitz Mar 7, 1941 German Jews ordered into forced labor. Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Jan 31, 1942 SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally of 229,052 Jews killed. Sep 18, 1942 Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany. Jan 18, 1943 First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto Mar 22, 1943 Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz Apr 14, 1944 First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totaling 5,200 persons Oct 28, 1944 The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz Jan 6, 1945 Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews Jan 18, 1945 Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz
