Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.
Dachau Concentration Camp opened.
Enabling Act.
first boycotts of Jewish businesses
Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.
Approval of the Education Law: it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.
Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.
Approval of the Press Censorship Law
Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”
Approval of the mandatory military service.216
Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.
Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.
approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.
Annexation of Austria
Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.
Sudetenland, ceded to Germany
Polish Jews deported from Germany.
Kristallnacht
Germany annexed Czechoslovakia
German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression
Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.
Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.
Germany invaded Norway and Denmark
Germany invaded Western Europe.
Italy declared war on Britain and France
First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz
Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.
Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece
Germany invaded the Soviet Union
Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.
Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.
Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.
Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).
Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.
Allied forces invaded North Africa
Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.
German defeat at Stalingrad
first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz
Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.
Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.
Surrender of Italy.
Germany occupied Hungary
Beginning of the Normandy landings.
Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops
Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.
Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.