German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany
Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land
Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications
German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property
Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
Hermann Göring takes charge of resolving the "Jewish Question."
First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off
German Jews ordered into forced labor
Göring instructs Heydrich to prepare for Final Solution.
Jews take there are placed in mobile gas vans and driven to a burial place while carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust is fed into the sealed rear compartment, killing them
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz
Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz
Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.