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Jan 30,1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. Because he demanded the right to become it. -
Mar 23, 1933
Dachau concentration camp opens. Its first prisoners are political opponents. -
Apr 1, 1933
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. -
Apr 25, 1933
The law against "overcrowding in German schools and univeristies" is adopted, restricting the number of Jewish children allowed to attend. Children of war veterns and those with one non-Jewish parent are exempt at first. -
May 10, 1933
The Nazis declare that any books they disapprove of should be banned. They burn tens of thousands of books in huge bonfires. This includes many popular children's books, since the author was Jewish. -
Jul 14, 1933
Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases is adopted. As a result, German doctors sterilize many disabled adults and children, and also Jewish, Gypsy and Afro-German children. -
Apr 9, 1935
Jehovah's Witnesses are banned from all civil servic jobs. -
May 6, 1935
"No Jews" signs and notices are posted outside German towns and villages, and outside shops and restruants. -
Period: May 6, 1933 to May 6, 1935
In German schools it is officially taught that "non-Aryans" are racially inferior. Jewish children are prohibited from participating in "Aryan" sport clubs, school orchestras, and other extracurricular activities. Jewish children are banned from playgrounds, swimming pools, and parks in many German cities and towns. -
Period: May 6, 1933 to May 6, 1935
In German schools it is officially taught that "non-Aryans" are racially inferior. Jewish children are prohibited from participating in "Aryan" sport clubs, school orchestras, and other extracurricular activities. Jewish children are banned from playgrounds, swimming pools, and parks in many German cities and towns. -
May 21, 1935
Jews are prohibited from serving in the German Armed forces. -
Sep 15, 1935
The Nuremburg Laws: laws proclaimed at Nuremburg stripped German Jews of their citizenship even though they retained limited rights. -
Oct 15, 1936
The Ministry of Science and Education prohibits the teaching by "non-Aryans" in public schoos and bans private instruction by Jewish teachers. -
Jul 2, 1937
Further restrictions are imposed on the number of Jewish students attending German schools. -
Jul 16, 1937
Buchenwald concentration camp is opened. -
Mar 11, 1938
Germany occupies and incorporates Austria as a German province called the Ostmark -
May 13, 1938
The German government passes a degree requiring the registration of all Gypsies without a fixed address living in the Ostmark; by June 1938, all Gypsy children above the age of 14 have to be fingerprinted. This is a central part of the growing racial definition of Gypsies as "Criminally asocial." -
May 17, 1938
Special questionnaires for the registration of Jews and Mischlinge (people of part Jewish-origin) are used for the national census. -
Jun 12, 1938
The Germans launch the first major wave of arrests of German and Austrian Gypsies, including all Gypsy teenagers (14 and older). They are sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Mauthausen. Females above age 14 are sent to Litchenburg and its successor concentration camp at Ravensbruck. -
Jul 11, 1938
Jews are prohibited from going to German spas and vacationing at German beaches. -
Jul 23, 1938
A decree is issued that Jews older than the age of 15 must carry, at all times, identity cards that mark them as Jews. -
Aug 17, 1938
A decree makes it mandatory for Jews to insert the middle names of "Israel" and "Sara" into all official documents. -
Sep 29, 1938
Munich Conference: World powers allow Germany to annex Czechoslovakia. -
Oct 5, 1938
Jewish passports must be stamped with a red "J" at the request of the Swiss government. -
Nov 9, 1938
Kristallnacht: organized nation-wide anti-Jewish riots result in the burning of hundreds of synogogues, the looting and destruction of many Jewish homes, schools, and community offices, vandalism, and the looting of 7,500 Jewish stores. Many Jews are beaten and more than 90 killed. 30,000 Jewish men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Severa thousand Jewish women are arrested and sent to local jails. -
Nov 15, 1938
An official decree prohibits Jews from attending German public schools; thereafter, they can attend only seperate Jewish schools. -
Dec 3, 1938
Jews must sell their businesses and real estate and hand over their securities and jewelry to the government at artificially ow prices. -
Dec 3, 1938
Decrees ban Jews from public streets on certain days; Jews are forbidden driver's license and car registrations. -
Dec 8, 1938
Jews may no longer attend universities as teachers and/or students. -
Apr 30, 1939
Loses all legal protection as renters
German Jews lose all legal protection as renters; many are expelled and forced to move to smaer residences in less desirable neighborhoods. -
Jun 5, 1939
2,000 Gypsy males above the age of 16 are arrested in Burgenland province (formerly Austria) and sent to Dacau and Buchenwald concentration camps; 1,000 Gypsy girls and women above the age of 15 are arrested and sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp. -
Sep 1, 1939
Germany invades Poland; World War II begins. German and Austrian Jews are subjected to a night curfew and restrited shopping hours in stores during the day. -
Sep 23, 1939
More restrictive rations
Jews are forced to turn in raidios, cameras, and other electric objects to the police. Jews recieve more restrictive ration coupons than other Germans. They do not recieve oupons for meat, milk, ect. Jews aso recieve fewer and more limited clothing ration cards than other Germans. -
Nov 23, 1939
Germans force Jews in Poland to wear a yellow star of David on their chest or a blue-and-white star of David arm band. -
Apr 7, 1940 to Jun 7, 1940
Germany conquers Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France. -
May 7, 1940
Approximently 154,000 Polish Jews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto which established and sealed off from the outside world. -
May 20, 1940
A concentration camp is established in Auschwitz, Poland -
Jul 29, 1940
German Jews are denied telephones. -
Jan 16, 1942
Deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto to the killing center at Chelmno begins. -
Apr 6, 1941
Germany, joined by Itay and Bulgaria, invades Yugoslavia and Greece. -
Sep 1, 1941
German Jews above the age of 6 are forced to wear a Yellow Star of David sewed on the left side of the chest with the "Jude" printed on it in black. -
Oct 7, 1941
Birkenau
Construction begins on an addition to the Auschwitz camp, known as Birkenau. Birkenau includes a killing center, which begins operations early 1942. -
Oct 14, 1941
Deportation of German Jews to Poland begins, including the first transports to the Lodz ghetto. -
Nov 9, 1941
Five thousand Gypsies are deportated from labor and internment camps to the Lodz ghetto. -
Dec 8, 1941
U.S. declares war on Germany
First killing center (Chelmno) begins operation; the U.S. declares war on Germany. First gassing of victims in mobile gas vans -
Jan 20, 1942
Wannsee Conferense: senior German government officials discuss the details of their plan to carry out the "Final Solution" to kill all JEws in Europe. -
Feb 7, 1942 to Mar 7, 1942
The "evacuation" of the major Jewish ghettos in the Genera Government in Poland begins. This marks the launching of the systematic. -
May 9, 1942
Approximately 10,000 Jews, who had arrived in the Lodz ghetto some six months earlier from Germany, Luxemburg, Vienna, and Prague, are deported to Chelmno. Before they board the trains, their baggage is confiscated. -
Jun 7, 1942
All Jewish schools in Germany are closed by the government. -
Sep 9, 1942
Approximately 15,000 Jews in the Lodz ghetto are deported to Chelmno, mostly children inder 10 and individuals that are 65, but it also includes others who are too weak or ill too work. -
Mar 1, 1943
All Gypsies in Germany, with a few exceptions, are arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Mar 7, 1943
All Gypsies in Nazi-occupied countries are deported to Auschwitz- BIrkenau. -
Jun 9, 1943
Heinrich Himler orders the liquidation (destruction) of all ghettos in Poland and the USSR. -
May 6, 1944
A hunger strike spreads in the Lodz ghetto and continues for several days. -
Jun 26, 1944
7,196 Jews are deported from the Lodz ghetto to Chelmno, where they are killed. -
Jul 24, 1944
Advancing Soviet troops liberate the killing center at Majdanek. -
Aug 2, 1944
The Gypsy-family camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated, and its inhabitants are killed. -
Aug 14, 1944
Remaining Lodz ghetto Jews are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau as Soviet Troops continue theis advance into Poland. -
Oct 7, 1944
The Nazis deport some prisoners from Auschwitz westward to be used in German camps and factories for forced labor. -
Oct 7, 1944
Members of the Sonderkommando (camp prisoners forced to burn corpses) stage a rebellion at Auschwitz-Birkenau. They succeed in blowing up a gas chamber and crematoria. -
Jan 17, 1945
The Soviets are 10 days away
With the Soviet army only 10 days away, remaining camp inmates are evacuated from Auschwitz; "death march" to concentration camps inside of Germany begins. -
Jan 27, 1945
Soviet troops liberate the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. -
Apr 11, 1945
American troops liberate the camp at Buchenwald. -
Apr 30, 1945
Adolf Hitler commits suicide. -
May 8, 1945
The war and the Nazi regime ended.
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