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