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The first concentration camp, Dachau, opens outside of Munich
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A boycott of Jewish-owned shops and buisness is placed in Germany
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Germany incorperates Austria into the Anschluss (Union)
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Germany invades Poland, which starts World War II in Europe
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, and the United Staes declares war the next day
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
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Germany begains a mass deportation of more then 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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Germany begins a mass deportation of nearly 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)
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Germans begins a mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing centre
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The Warsaw ghetto uprising begins
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The rescue of Jews in Denmark
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Death march from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Death march from the Stutthof camp system in Northern Poland
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the Western allies
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets
