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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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March 22: The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich (note: some "wild camps" already existed before 1933: Papenburg, Esterwegen, Börgermoor etc...)..
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May 10: Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state.
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July 14: Law excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship.
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August 2: Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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May 31: Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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September 15: "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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November 15: Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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March 7: Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.
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July 12: Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
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July 15: Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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April 26: Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich
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October 28: 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn.
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January 30: Hitler in Reichstag speech: if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews
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October 28: First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow.
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May 10: Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
