Hitler found guilty of treason. He writes political autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). He is released from jail in December.
Beginning of Great Depression
Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
The Gestapo is created by Hermann Göring
In July - Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those that have genetic defects.
Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land
Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
June 26, 1935 - Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
February 10, 1936 - The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists.
Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland
October 28, 1938 - Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's Land' near the Polish border for several months.
Jewish students are expelled from all non-Jewish schools.
German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.
Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
September 23, 1939 - German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
British bombing raids begin over Hamburg
February 22, 1941 - 430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and
In January - Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B (gas poison) begin at Auschwitz with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.
Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to pressure the U.S. government into helping the Jews of Europe
Allies carpet bomb Hamburg, killing at least 43,000 people
Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.
D-Day
Anne Frank and family captured by Gestapo
Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen.
Late 1944 - Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews by moving them from Plaszow labor camp to his hometown of Brunnlitz.
In 1945 - As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas.
Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz
Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen
Allies liberate Buchenwald
Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British
Hitler commits suicide in his bunker.
Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
