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Hitler's Campaign Speech
"Adolf Hitler will provide work and bread! Elect List 2!" This was one of the posters that promoted Hitler's determination. Campaigning proved to be the best way to gain popularity. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
The National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi) takes control of the German state. This is one of the most crucial steps to him becoming the ruler. -
Hitler Declares Himself Fuhrer
He abolishes the office of President and now, his decisions and actions cannot be limited to the laws. Hitler became the absolute dictator of Germany and has no constitutional limits to his authority. -
Nuremberg Race Laws
Your grandparents ethnicity dictate if you are referred to as a Jew (only one). Many people who don't practice Judaism are being subjected to these laws. Even people who converted to Christianity were counted as a Jew. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
This camp was only made for male prisoners; it was one of the largest camps within German borders. Women were not part of the system until late 1943/ early 1944. -
Antisemitic Exhibition Opens
Josef Goebbels, Reich propaganda minister, and Julius Streicher, editor of the antisemitic newspaper, open the exhibition in Munich, Germany. It showed stereotypical images of Jews to depict charges of a Jewish world against Germany. More than 400,000 people attended. -
Law of Alteration of Personal Names
This law requires citizens to adapt a "non-Jewish" name. "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women. Jews were also required to publicly identify themselves in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the German population. All Jewish passports were stamped with a red "J." -
German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid
Jews must surrender their old passports and receive a passport with letter "J." They were forced to carry identity cards that depicted their heritage. -
Exclusion of Jews from German Life
Jews are now forbidden from selling goods or services at an establishment of any kind. Jews felt the effects of more 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their private and public lives. -
First Kinder Transport Arrives in Great Britain
Kinder Transport was an informal name for Children's Transport; it's a series of efforts to rescue refugee Jewish children. The transport brought them to Great Britain, but their parents were not permitted to accompany the children. Eventually, 9,000-10,000 children were brought to Great Britain and were never able to see their parents again for they were murdered.
