Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
Jews are banned from the German Labor Front
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances
Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.
SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up the emigration of Jews.
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp
Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states, "I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Russian troops reach former Polish border.
Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews
Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service