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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, marking the begging of Nazi control. This leads to the establishment of a totalitarian regime that begins to implement discriminatory laws against Jews and other minorities. -
The Nazis orchestrate a nationwide boycott of Jewish owned business this is one of the first public acts of antisemitism by the Nazi government signaling the beginning of systemic persecution -
The Nuremberg Laws are passed stripping Jews of German citizenship and prohibiting marriages between Jews and non jews. This legalizes discrimination and isolates Jews from public and social life. -
A violent program against Jews takes place throughout Nazi Germany and Austria. Synagogues are burned, Jewish businesses are destroyed, and thousands of Jews are arrested or killed. It marks a significant escalation in the persecution of Jews. -
Nazi Germany invades Poland triggering World War ||. This marks the beginning of the widespread systematic persecution and murder of Jews in occupied territories -
Nazu Germany invades the Soviet Union. Mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, follow the army and begin mass shooting of Jews, Roma and Soviets POWS, marking the beginning of large scale killing in Easter Europe -
Senior Nazi officials meet at the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "final solution" which formalizes the plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish population of Europe. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin as Soviet forces close in on the city. This marks the effective end of Nazi leadership and is follow by Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945