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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg.
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The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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"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
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Reichführer SS Himmler (chief of the SS units) appointed the Chief of German Police
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Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees
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Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia.
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Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen).
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All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
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One billion mark fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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Concentration camp established at Auschwitz
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France surrenders
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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34,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants
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Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler
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Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up
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Hitler commits suicide
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V-E Day: Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
