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9 million dead combatants.
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Hitler wrote volume one of Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
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Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany.
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The Reichstag building went up in flames. Nazis' claimed it to be the beggining of a Comunist revolution.
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Frist consentration camp opened in Dachau.
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Jewish shops and buisneses boycotted nationwide.
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Hitler names himself "Fuhrer" over both Government and party.
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Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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Numbering Laws enacted.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opened.
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First Polish Jews deported from Germany.
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Kristallnacht following assassination of von Rath
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Jewish pupils expelled from German schools.
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Ravensbruck consentration camp for woman estableshed.
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Jewish refugees aboard SS St. Louis denied entry to Cuba and US.
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Ghettoization of Polish Jews.
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Jews in Poland forced to wear the Star of David.
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General Governor Hans Frank issued an ordinance that Jews ten years of age and older living in General Govornment had to wear the Star of David.
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Lodz Ghetto established, sealed in April.
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Concentration camp established in Auschwitz.
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Warsaw Ghetto established, sealed in November with 500,000 people.
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Dutch Jews required to register.
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Authority given to prepair a "total solution" to Jewish problem.
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Jews in the Third Reich must wear the Star of David.
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Nazis began using gassing vans.
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In Denmark, 7,220 of its 8,000 Jews were saved by a citizenry who hid them, then ferried them to safty.
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Revolt by Auschwitz inmates.
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Prisoners forced to handle the bodies of gas chamber victoms blew up one of the crematoria at Auschwitz.
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Soviets liberate Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suecide.
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Nazi Germany surrenders; end of World War II in Europe. Spring: Liberation of camps. Brittish liberate Bergen Beisen. Americans liberate Dachau.
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First major Nuremberg war crimes trial begins.
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The Jews proclaimed the Independent State of Israel as theirs.
