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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Dachau concentration camp opens.
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A nation-wide boycott of Jewish businesses is ordered by the Nazi party. Nazi guards stand in front of Jewish-owned stores and discourage people from shopping there. People shopping at these stores were threatened and physically attacked.
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German Jews are stripped of their citizenship
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Approximately 100 Jews murdered, 20,000 Austrian and German Jews arrested and sent to camps. Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the windows of all Jewish shops were smashed.
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Jews are not allowed to attend public schools and can only attend Jewish schools
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Germany invades Poland and WWII begins
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Jews in Poland were forced to wear a yellow star on their clothing to be easier to identify.
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A new concentration and death camp opens, Auschwitz. Many European Jews deported here around this time.
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Killing squads began rounding up and killing Jews in Russia. 33,000 Jews are murdered in two days at Babi Yar near Kiev.
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Reinhard Heydrich chosen to commence the Final Solution.
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On this date the first actual 'death camp' was opened at Chelmno.
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During this month, the Nazis began putting hundreds of Jews into chambers and locking them in, and then releasing Zyklon B, a toxic gas when combined with oxygen when released, leaving Jews to suffocate and die in mass quantities, making the killing more efficient and less demoralizing than shooting them all in the head.
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Nazis were given the order to remove the rest of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and deport them to Treblinka. News leaked to the remaining Jews that there were mass killings of their people so they decided they have nothing to lose and fought against the Nazis for a month until they shot them or sent them to camps.
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Russians were advancing from the East, so the Nazis started closing death camps and destroying evidence of their existence.
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Many camps that weren't closed already were shut down and the Nazis destroy as much evidence as possible. Jews who survived were brought on death marches.
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Relaizing his inevitable defeat, Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders for good and WWII is over.
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Surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial for their mass murders and all crimes they have committed against not just Europe, but the world.
