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On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. He immediately sent a powerful message of anti-Jew and anti-Communist feelings. He would remain chancellor until 1934.
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Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp at Dachau. Its prisoners are only political prisoners... for now.
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Books by Jews and opponents of Nazism (Communists,Capitalists, etc.) are burned publicly.
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Hitler appoints himself President-Chancellor of Germany and begins his regime by persecuting Jews.
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Jews are slowly being phased out of Hitler's New Germany. Shown here, a Jew is caught trying to illegally escape from Germany.
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The Nuremburg Laws took away citizenship from every Jew in Nazi-occupied Germany.
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Hitler violates the Versailles Treaty even further by sending his army into the Rhineland area.
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The Olympic Games are held in Berlin. All of the "No Jews" posters are removed until August 16.
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The Olympic Games are held in Berlin. All of the "No Jews" posters are removed until August 16.
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A concentration camp is opened named Buchenwald.
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Germany brought Austria under its control in 1938.
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On this infamous night, Hitler ordered that thousands of Jews and their property be desecrated and destroyed.
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The Soviet-German Non-aggression pact was signed to prevent the Soviet Union from entering into conflict.
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Germany invades Poland and World War II begins.
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Germans force Jews in Poland to wear a yellow Star of David on their chests.
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The Nazis establish the first Polish ghetto, this was known as the Warsaw ghetto.
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Germany invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France.
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Nazi Germany opens what will be one of the most feared concentration camps at Auschwitz, Poland.
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Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
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The Nazis push as far south as North Africa, and immediately begin persecuting Jews.
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Japan launches a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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All Jews in concentration camps in Nazi Germany are sent to Auschwitz.
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On this day, the Allied forces invaded Normandy and won the battle.
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Nazis send Jews on "death marches" to the Eastern Front.
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The Soviet Army liberates Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suicide in the Fuhrerbunker on the Eastern front rather than being captured.
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Soviet forces invade Berlin and capture it. Germany surrenders, and the war is now officially over.
