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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany. -
Dachau
First Concentration Camp opened in Munich, Germany. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
Nazis carried out the first nationwide, planned action against Jews: a boycott targeting Jewish businesses and professionals. -
Nuremberg Laws
At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws that follow the Nazi's ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." -
Kristallnact/The Night of the Broken Glass
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, which is known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Germany Invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Established
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi's. It included three main camps. All three camps used prisoners for forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. -
"Final Solution"
German mobile killing squads, care assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union. At first, the mobile killing squads shoot primarily Jewish men. Soon, wherever the mobile killing squads go, they shoot all Jewish men, women, and children, without regard for age or gender. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march.