Schutzstaffel was established (originally Hitler's personal guards, but later became the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler’s executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties without regard for legal restraint).
Adolf Hitler got appointed as chancellor in Germany.
Adolf Hitler claims "emergency" powers to punish the people who set off the fire in Reichstag.
Jewish businesses were targeted and boycotted by the Nazis.
Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases.
Germany enacted the Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals.
Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws.
Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles after sending German troops into Rhineland (a demilitarized zone).
Reichszentrale is created in Germany so the Nazis can fight off homosexuality and abortion.
Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing in public at all times.
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Kristallnacht, aka "The Night of Broken Glass", was when Germans killed hundreds of Jews and attacked thousands of Jewish institutions (some Jews were even sent to concentration camps).
S.S. St. Louis (the ship was filled with Jews) sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba to escape increasing persecution under the Third Reich in Germany.
Germany invades Poland; start of WWII.
Auschwitz opens.
Germans open the Lodz Ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
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The Nazi government set in motion a plan to exile all European Jews to Madagascar.
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units of Nazi Germany) conducted mass killings of Jews, Communists, and the disabled in Nazi-occupied areas in the East.
Adolf Hitler issues The Commissar Order, an order which states all Soviet commissars were to be shot if found (and identified).
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Babi Yar massacre occurred; Nazis killed over 34,000 Jews in Kiev.
The Wannsee Conference took place — German officials gathered in Berlin to discuss the "final solution" in regards to the "Jewish question" (genocide against the Jewish population in Europe).
Last gassing of inmates done at Auschwitz.
Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz.
Himmler orders to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps.
Himmler orders to demolish the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz.
Liberation of Auschwitz.
Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
The International Military Tribunal for Germany formally opened in Nuremberg, Germany, where the Allied nations decided the punishment Germany would get for the war crimes they've committed.
Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service agency, Mossad (they had tracked him down and later took him to Israel).
Dr. Josef Mengele is found dead from a stroke off the the Brazilian coast.