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Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler became Chancellor of Germany -
Dachau opened
This concentration camp was opened two months after Adolf Hitler had been appointed as Chancellor. This camp served as a model for other concentration camps and as a school of violence for the SS men. 243,000 people were murdered. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
This was the first economic boycott against the Jews of Germany: a boycott targeting Jewish businesses and profressionals. Hitler made illegitimate claims that Jewish Germans were hoarding money and hurting Germany's economy. -
Nuremberg Laws
Nazi announced new laws on Sept. 15, 1935. These laws institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Naxi 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". -
Kristallnacht// The Night of Broken Glass
Germans cordinated massive attacks in response to the murder of a German diplomat by a Jewish teenager (supposedly). In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades poland as Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule poland. -
Auschwitz concentration camp established
In May of 1940, Jews began to arrive at the largest concentration camp called auschwitz. -
"Final Solution" begins
Nazi's plan to exterminate all Jewish people. This was the start to the Holocaust and the killing of many Jews. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp in Poland. In 1945, the prisioners remaining at the camp were liberated on January 27. January 27 is a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.