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Adolf Hitler is now Chancellor of Germany with 566,000 jews there.
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The Nazis burn down Reichstag building orded by the german government
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Because of the burning of Reichstag building hitler gains power
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German Parliament enabling dictatorial powers , giving Hitler dictatorial powers
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Nazis were being Ordered by hitler to cut down Jewish shops and businesses.
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- Nazi Party only legal party in Germany, Also Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
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Jewish people are not allowed national health insurance.
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Hitler gets 90 percent of votes from German voters approving his new powers.
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Jews are ban by Nazis from serving in the military
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Jews are banned from many professional jobs including teaching Germans, and also not allowed from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna.
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Nazis ordered Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer.
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Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine.
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Jewish passports are now stamped with a large red "J."
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe).
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Nazis invade France (Jewish pop. 350,000), Belgium (Jewish pop. 65,000), Holland (Jewish pop. 140,000), and Luxembourg (Jewish pop. 3,500).
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The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed.
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Nazis occupy Bulgaria (Jewish pop. 50,000).
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Nazis invade Yugoslavia (Jewish pop. 75,000) and Greece (Jewish pop. 77,000).
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Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million).
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Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars.
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Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.
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Lodz, the last Jewish ghetto in Poland, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz.
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- Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews
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- Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.