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Stated that Germany was not allowed to expand their army and must pay reparations to the Allies.
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Hitler reorganized the party and named it the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or the Nazi Party.
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Adolf Hitler tried and failed to take over the government and was sent to prison.
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Adolf Hitler's biography that he wrote while in prison is published, stating that racial purity was the only solution to Germany's problems.
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The Nazis won 18.3% of the votes at the September 1930 Reichstag election, making them the second largest political party in the Reichstag.
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Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party gained total control of Germany. They restricted media and allowed themselves to search people's homes and belongings.
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German President von Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer.
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Nuremberg laws are passed, denying Jewish Germans citizenship and other basic rights.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, and Hitler announces a union with the country.
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Jewish businesses and homes are destroyed, and Jews are killed and wounded. Named after the broken glass littering the streets.
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The MS St. Louis, a ship containing over 900 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba and the United States and sent back to Europe.
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Germany invades Poland, leading Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation.
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The Warsaw and Krakow Ghettos, collectively containing about 500,000 Jews, are sealed off.
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Beginning of general deportation of German Jews.
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The start of deportation of Slovak and French Jews to Auschwitz.
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The Krakow Ghetto is liquidated.
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Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
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Russian troops liberate the Majdanek concentration camp, where over 360,000 people were killed.
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz, which had a death toll of over 1 million. Other camps would be liberated throughout the year.
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Germany surrenders to the Allies, about a week after Hitler committed suicide in his bunker.
