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Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany
Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany -
SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany
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March 16, 1935: Germany introduces military conscription
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.
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The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
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September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
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Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.
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Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon
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Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
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Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
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Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
