Events leading up to the Holocaust By diditj97 Jan 30, 1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany Jan 1, 1935 Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses and Jews no longer have the right to vote. Dec 18, 1938 The Night of broken Glass Kristalnacht Kristalnacht over 30,000 Jews were arrested in this period of riots Jan 1, 1940 Jews are forced into ghettos and are put into concentration camps.