German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
Jews are banned from many professional Occupations
'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.
Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools.
Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off
The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.
Hitler declares war on the United States
Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz
Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin.
Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
The Bermuda Conference occurs as representatives from the United States and Britain discuss the problem of refugees from Nazi-occupied countries, but results in inaction concerning the plight of the Jews.
April 19-30th
D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France
Himmler orders destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz.
Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
Unconditional German surrender signed by General Alfred Jodl at Reims.
