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The Nazi Party’s meteoric rise to power began in 1930 when it attained 107 seats in Germany’s parliament, the Reichstag.
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The Nazi party was one of a number of right-wing extremist political groups that emerged in Germany, becoming the largest party in the German Parliament in 1932.
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In 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor in Germany by all the victories. He soon kicked all the other political parties and made it only Nazis.
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The German government bans Jehovah's Witness organizations. The ban is due to Jehovah's Witnesses refusal to swear allegiance to the state
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First German Gypsies are arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. Olympic Games take place in Berlin. Anti-Jewish signs are removed until the Games are over.
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Representatives from thirty-two countries meet at Evian, France, to discuss refugee policies. Most countries refuse to let in more Jewish refugees.
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Hitler extends the power of doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled persons in the “euthanasia” program.Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
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German army invades the Soviet Union. The Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads, begin mass murders of Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders.
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Fifteen Nazi and government leaders meet at Wannsee, a section of Berlin, to discuss the “final solution to the Jewish question”.
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Jews in the Warsaw ghetto resisted with arms the Germans’ attempt to liquidate the ghetto.
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Allied powers invade western Europe on D-Day. German officers fail in their attempt to assassinate Hitler. President Roosevelt sets up the War Refugee Board at the urging of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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US troops liberate survivors at Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps.Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin