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German President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor on January 30, 1933. His appointment paved the way to the Nazi dictatorship after Hindenburg’s death in August 1934. -
On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany began World War II by attacking Poland.
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union
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the Germans had started massacring entire Jewish communities. These massacres were often conducted in broad daylight and in full view and earshot of local residents. -
German SS and police completed the destruction of the last major ghetto, in Lodz.
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Soviet forces liberated that part of Budapest in which the two ghettos were located and liberated the nearly 90,000 Jewish residents. -
leaders of the fascist Arrow Cross movement seized power in a German-sponsored coup -
The Holocaust ended in May 1945 when the major Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives, they overran concentration camp
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