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Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany
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Books by Jews and opponents of Nazism are burned publicly.
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Adolph Hitler declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich after the death of Paul von Hindenburg.
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First major wave of arrests of homosexuals occurs throughout Germany, continuing into November.
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Hitler violates the Versailles Treaty by renewing the compulsory military draft.
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Jews are prohibited from serving in the German armed forces.
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Jewish doctors are no longer permitted to practice in government institutions in Germany.
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Hitler's army invades the Rhineland.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Jews can obtain passports for travel outside of Germany only in special cases.
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The German government announces Jews must carry identification cards.
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Jews must sell their businesses and real estate and hand over their securities and jewelry to the government at artificially low prices.
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Germany invades and occupies Czechoslovakia.
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Soviet-German Non-aggression Pact signed.
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Approximately 164,000 Polish Jews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto which is established and sealed off from the outside world.
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The Warsaw ghetto is closed off with approximately 500,000 inhabitants.
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Romania passes law condemning adult Jews to forced labor.
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The German army invades North Africa
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The German government closes all Jewish schools.
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A special internment camp for non-Jewish Polish youth is opened in Lódz.
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The Danish citizens smuggle most of the nation's Jews to neutral Sweden.
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The inmates at Sobibor initiate an armed rebellion.
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The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews. Over 430,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most are gassed.
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German officers fail and are caught in an attempt to assassinate Hitler.
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Troops from the United States liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.
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The war crimes tribunal is convened at Nuremberg, Germany.
