4.02 World War II Timeline Project

1.

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

3.

Mar 7, 1933

Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

2.

Mar 22, 1933

Dachau concentration camp opens

4.

Apr 7, 1933

Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions

5.

Apr 26, 1933

Gestapo established

6.

May 10, 1933

Public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state

7.

Jul 14, 1933

Law stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship

8.

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him

9.

May 31, 1935

Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

10.

Sep 15, 1935

"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

11.

Nov 15, 1935

Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew

15.

1936

Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens

12.

Mar 3, 1936

Jewish doctors were barred from practicing medicine in German institutions

13.

Mar 7, 1936

Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty

14.

Jun 17, 1936

Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police

16.

Oct 25, 1936

Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

17.

Jul 15, 1937

Buchenwald concentration camp opens

18.

Mar 13, 1938

Anschluss (incorporation of Austria): all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in Austria

19.

Apr 26, 1938

Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich

20.

Jun 6, 1938

Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees

21.

Aug 1, 1938

Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration

22.

Aug 3, 1938

Italy enacts sweeping antisemitic laws

23.

Sep 30, 1938

Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to the German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia

24.

Oct 5, 1938

Following a request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland

25.

Oct 28, 1938

17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany were expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn