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Franklin Roosevelt was elected president of the United States
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Gregor Strasser resigns from his Nazi party offices
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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First concentration camp opened at Oranienburg outside Berlin
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All Jewish holidays are removed from official German calendars
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Jews not allowed national health insurance
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German President von Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
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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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The German Gestapo is placed above the law
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland
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The first German Gypsies are arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices
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Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a large red "J"
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German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs
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Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 9 p.m. in summer and 8 p.m. in winter
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A new concentration camp, Auschwitz, opened
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The Nazis enter Paris
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The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off, which contained over 400,000 Jews
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Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools
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Nazis order German Jews to wear yellow stars
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Jews in the Lódz ghetto are deported to the killing center at Chelmno
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All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Newly built gas chamber opens at Auschwitz
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The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews
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German officers fail and are caught in an attempt to assassinate Hitler
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Adolph Hitler commits suicide in Berlin rather than getting caught by the Soviet army
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Troops from the United States set free Mauthausen concentration camp
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Germany surrenders and war in Europe is ended
