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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany
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Jews not allowed national health insurance.
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Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
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Nazis set up an Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortions (by healthy women).
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists.
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Jews are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer.
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
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First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off
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Nazis invade Yugoslavia and Greece
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
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The first transport of Jews from Germany arrives at Auschwitz.
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Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.
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The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety in Sweden
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A Jewish inmate escapes from Auschwitz and makes it safely to Czechoslovakia. He then warns the Elders of the Council at Theresienstadt about Auschwitz.
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
