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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand precipitates the start of the massive armed conflict in Europe now known as the First World War.
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Ottoman authorities arrest 240 Armenian leaders in Constantinople and deport them east.
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This day saw the heaviest loss of life in a single day during World War I.
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The "War Guilt Clause" of the Versailles Treaty forces Germany to accept responsibility for initiating World War I.
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Hitler issues his first written comment on the so-called Jewish Question.
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Adolf Hitler presents a 25-point plan at a Nazi Party meeting.
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Hitler and the Nazi Party attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic
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Annelies Marie Frank, born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, has become a symbol for the lost promise of the children who died in the Holocaust
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A proud young father pastes two photos into his extensive family journals.
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Nazi supporters at a campaign rally in Waldenburg, Germany. In a speech, Hitler attacks the Weimar Republic and pledges to dissolve the parliamentary system.
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Roosevelt wins the most votes in the American presidential elections.
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The Nazi Party assumes control of the German state.
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President Hindenburg suspends constitutional protections in Germany.
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The SS establishes the Dachau concentration camp in March 1933
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Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
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German law excludes Jews and other political opponents from civil service positions.
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The Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the number of Jewish students in public schools.
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The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 herald a new wave of antisemitic legislation that brings immediate and concrete segregation
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Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937
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Hitler declares that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry
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The St. Louis, carrying Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany, departs for Havana, Cuba
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SS authorities establish the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime.
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All Jews over six years of age in the Reich, Alsace, Bohemia-Moravia and the German–annexed territory of western Poland (called the Warthegau) are ordered to wear an identifying badge.
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Chelmo was first stationary facility where poison gas was used for mass murder
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German forces attack the Soviet Union in the south towards the city of Stalingrad.
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German authorities begin the deportation of Dutch Jews from camps in the Netherlands
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German poster, issued during mass deportations to Treblinka, announcing death penalty for aiding Jews who fled the Warsaw ghetto
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Jewish prisoners at the Sobibor killing center begin an armed revolt. Selma Wijnberg and Chaim Engel escape and flee into hiding.
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Under the code name Operation “Overlord,” US, British, and Canadian troops land on the beaches of Normandy, France
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German military officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his East Prussian headquarters at Rastenburg
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At Hartheim, German authorities carry out the last gassing of inmates
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin
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Verdicts delivered for major Nazi German leaders tried by the IMT.
