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Adolf Hitler is appointed the new Chancellor of Germany
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Law stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship.
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Buchenwald Concentration camp opens
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Hans meets Lisle and is kind to her it is also explained that he works as a painter and plays the accordion and the piano.
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Hitler Gives his speech in Reichstag stating that "If war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews".
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Hans reads the title The Grave Digger's Handbook. Lisle then becomes interested in the book. This leads to her writting her own book and Hans teaching her how to read.
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Germany invades Poland and World War II begins
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As Hans and Lisle are leaving the square he notices that her shirt is smoking and Lisle then has to show the book (Shoulder).
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Hans is in the kitchen talking to Max, Max asks himif he still plays the accordion Hans says he does. Death then does a flashback and tells us how Max's dad was a friend of Hans when they fought in World War I.
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Germany looks to take control of the Soviet Union with an invasion attack.
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German Jews are required to wear the yellow star of David with the word Jude.
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Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles, and Czechs were murdured from this time to April of 1943.
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Max gets seriously sick, Rosa blames the snowman Hans states that its Hitler's doing. Later Lisle Rosa and Hans take shifts looking after Max.
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Hans belives that max will die but Lisle he will going to survive he does.
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Ilsa Hermann is in the libray witch is a problem for Rudy and Lisle who want to find a book so they have to wait for her to leave, she eventually does.
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Ilsa sends a letter to Liesel stating she knows that she has been stealing her books but isn't mad about the whole thing in fact she happy. She says that next time come in like a costumer and she hopes they can be friends.
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Hans and Rosa and Liesel go to a bomb shelter and they have to leave Max alone in the Basement.
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Hans is helping a Jew by giving him bread they are both then beaten and whipped by a Nazi Soilder nearby.
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Hans joins the LSE an Air Raid Special Unit, His job is doing the cleaning along with other men.
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Ilsa says she enjoyed the book Liesel gave her, Liesel asked if this is her library Ilsa reponds and said that she use to read here with her son.
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Hans is playing cards with some of the other LSE members, they are playing for cigars Hans loses and is very humble about it.
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Hans Switches seats with Zucker the truck they were riding in crashes and Zucker is the only one that dies. Hans then states that it should have been him, he sustained a broken leg.
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Hans and everybody else dies from the bombing except for Liesel.
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest and Austria.
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Hitler commits suicide