Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.
German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers
The Gestapo is born, created by Hermann Göring in the German state of Prussia.
Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.
Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany
Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
Jews not allowed national health insurance.
The SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organization from the SA.
Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.
German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors and thus temporarily refrain from actions against Jews.
They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists
'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria.
Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.
- Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.
Nazis order Jewish-owned businesses to register
At Evian, France, the U.S. convenes a League of Nations conference with delegates from 32 countries to consider helping Jews fleeing Hitler, but results in inaction as no country will accept them.
Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.
Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer.
Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine.
Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
Nazis require Jewish women to add Sarah and men to add Israel to their names on all legal documents including passports.
Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland.
Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's 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.
Law for compulsory Aryanization of all Jewish businesses.
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec.
The start of deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz.
The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz.
First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
First transports of Jews arrive at Majdanek.
German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
In occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia.
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
