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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed as Chancellor under the Weimar Constitution by German president Paul Von Hindenburg. -
The systemic and organized mass killing of Europe's Jewish populations. A grand total of 6 million Jewish men, women, and children were captured and executed in Nazi German concentration and extermination camps.
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Hitler orders Nazi leaders to eliminate the SA(Sturmabteilung) and replaces them with the SS(Schutzstaffel). With full support and backing from the Nazi party and the SS, Hitler declares himself Führer of Germany. -
On September 15, 1935, the Nazi regime implemented two laws regarding the race and ethnicities of Germany. These would later be known as The Nuremberg Race Laws. These two laws, The Reich Citizenship Law and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, set specific rules about what ethnicity a person was determined by. -
German soldiers march into Austria, followed closely behind by Hitler himself. On the following day, Hitler announces the annexation of Austria into the German Reich. -
After months of careful planning, Hitler and his German forces invade Poland. On the morning of September 1, 1939, the German battleship known as the Schleswig-Holstein moved into Danzig harbor to the Bend of Five Whistles. Once in position, it opened fire on a Polish military battery, marking the beginning of World War II. -
German officials created Jewish ghettos in Polish cities(which was now under German occupation). The purpose of these ghettos was to isolate and control the large Jewish population in Europe for future purposes, such as moving them to concentration and eventually extermination camps. -
Hitler's German army begins their invasion of the Soviet Union as a part of "Operation Barbarossa." Around this time, the U.S. declares war on Japan after the horrific events of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, resulting in Germany and Italy declaring war on the U.S. as a result. -
After the death of Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler orders a concentrated attack on the Czech population, resulting in the destruction of the towns of Lidice and Lezaky. -
Even after Hitler had died and the Holocaust had long since passed, feelings of antisemitism had only increased. One such example was The Kielce Pogrom, in which 42 Jewish men and women were shot and killed outside a shelter in Poland.