Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany - a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany,
Enabling act passes, giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.
Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land. Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors. Jews not allowed nationalhealth insurance. Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.
Hitler receives a ninety percent “Yes” vote from Germany voters approving his new powers.
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
Nazis troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announcesAnschluss (union) with Austria.
Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland, which refuses thementry, leaving them in “no-mans land” near the Polish border for several months.
Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass.
Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht.
Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools.
Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia (Jewish population, 350,000).
Nazis invade Poland (Jewish population 3.35 million), the largest in Europe.
Hitler declares war on the United States.
First train-loads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies.
Nazis declare Berlin to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews).
Last use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have beenmurdered there.
Berlin reached by Soviet troops.
Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
Opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
