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Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, a nation with a Jewish population of 560,000.
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Nazis burn the Reichstag building to establish Hilter's power, creating a new atmosphere full or crisis.
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany and Sachsenhausen near Berlin.
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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses and civil rights.
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Nazis issue a Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan.
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany. Also, the Nazis pass a Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
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Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
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Jews are banned from recieving national health insurance.
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
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Nazis ban the Jews from serving in the military.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
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Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors.
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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.
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Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
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Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht and destroying synagogues.
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Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools.
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Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia (Jewish pop. 350,000).
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Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning of SS activity in Poland.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
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Nazis invade France (Jewish pop. 350,000), Belgium (Jewish pop. 65,000), Holland (Jewish pop. 140,000), and Luxembourg (Jewish pop. 3,500).
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Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi Allies.
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Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million).
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The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz
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Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany using 90% of their troops to take down Hitler.
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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.
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The New York Times reports via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by Nazis.
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Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water.
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Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
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The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces.
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Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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Massive escape from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods. Of those 300, fifty survived.
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Nazis occupy Hungary (Jewish pop. 725,000). Eichmann arrives with Gestapo "Special Section Commandos."
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Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed.
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Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border.
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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Hermann Göring captured by members of U.S. 7th Army.
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Opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
