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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Jewish lawyers can no longer practice in Berlin.
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First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany for political reasons,
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Jewish teachers to be discharged.
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Nazis organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.,
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First anti-Jewish laws passed. Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees (teachers, post office workers, government workers).
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Jews expelled from sports clubs.
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Nazis burn books of those considered un-German. This introduces the idea of censorship and government control of culture.
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Jews expelled from choir clubs.
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Jewish actors and actresses prohibited from performing,
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Jewish musicians prohibited from performing.
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Nazi government declared "ratial laws," making Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews. These laws are commonly known as the Nuremberg Laws.
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The summer Olympic games are held in Berlin, Germany.
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Jews were not allowed to graduate.
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Germany annexes Austria. Thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-Jewish actions that follow.
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Jewish doctors can no longer practice.
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Streets with Jewish names to be renamed.
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Jews to add middle name of Sarah or Israel.
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Jews cannot leave their home after 8pm; 9pm in summer.
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Jews cannot belong to German Automobile Club.
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Passports of Jews to be stamped with a J.
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In a nationwide pogrom called Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot jewish homes and businesses.
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Jews not allowed to go to movies, operas, and concerts.
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Jews not allowed to use swimming pools.
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Jews to hand in drivers licenses.
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Jews to turn in gold, silver, platuinum, pearls.
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German troops invade Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.
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Jews to turn in radios.
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Nazi government begins to program to kill mentally and physically disabled people in a "euthanasia" program known as the "T-4 Program."
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German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from west Prussia, Poznan, Danzig and Lodz to locations in the General Government.
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German troops invade France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemborg.
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All Jews to perform forced labor,
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German troops invade the Soviet Union.
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Jews no longer allowed to use public libraries.
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German mobile killing sqauds, Einsatzgruppen, were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behind the front lines.
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Jews over the age of 6 who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow Star of David at all times.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.
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Jews no longer allowed to emigrate.
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Gassing operations begin at the Chelmno killing center.
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Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution (mass murder of Jews in Europe).
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Bakeries and candy stores off limits to Jews.
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Jews not allowed to purchase newspapers or magazines.
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Jewish home must display "Jewish Star".
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Jews not allowed to have pets.
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Jews not allowed to go to school.
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Jews are not allowed to drink milk.
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First direct deportation to Auschwitz.
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Jews cannot testify in court against Germans.
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Jews not allowed to buy books.
