Timeline: The Rise and Fall of Nazism | Timetoast

Jan 30, 1933

"President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany." [USHMM]
Apr 1, 1933

"Hitler outlaws all political parties other than the Nazi Party." [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Sep 1, 1933

"Jews removed from various fields of entertainment including music, art, and literature." [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Jan 6, 1934

Germany and Poland sign a non-aggression treaty.
Jun 28, 1934

The Night of the Long Knives was a massacre of Hitler's rivals in the SA on homosexual men.
Aug 3, 1934

"Hitler assumes powers of both President and Chancellor." [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
May 20, 1935

Jews are forbidden to become army officers.
Jun 27, 1935

It becomes illegal to be a homosexual.
Sep 15, 1935

The Nuremberg Laws are passed, which took away civil rights of Jews.
Mar 2, 1936

Jewish families do not receive government help with children, otherwise known as child allowances.
Aug 1, 1936

"Summer Olympics begin in Berlin." [USHMM]
Jul 16, 1937

Buchenwald camp, the largest concentration camp, opens.
May 29, 1938

"Jewish role in economy restricted to 20 percent - first anti-Jewish law in Hungary." [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Jun 25, 1938

"Jewish physicians only allowed to treat Jewish patients (Germany)" [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Aug 17, 1938

"Jews are required to add "Israel" to their name for men and "Sarah" for women (Germany)." [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Oct 5, 1938

"Jewish passports are marked with the letter "J" for "Jude" [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Nov 15, 1938

"Jewish children expelled from German schools" [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline]
Mar 15, 1939

Germany seizes Czechoslovakia.
Oct 1, 1939

Hitler allows doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled people in the "euthanasia" program.
Period: Mar 1, 1940 to May 1, 1940

Nazis invades Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and France. Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi allies.
Nov 15, 1940

Krakow Ghetto and Warsaw Ghetto are sealed off
Mar 1, 1941

Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools and German army invades North Africa.
Apr 6, 1941

"Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece." [USHMM]
Sep 23, 1941

Nazis test gas chambers on Soviet prisoners of war and Polish prisoners.
Dec 11, 1941

"Nazi Germany declares war on the United States." [USHMM]
Jan 1, 1942

Nazi "extermination" camps begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.
Jun 1, 1942

The German government closes all Jewish schools.
Oct 4, 1942

All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz.
Jan 29, 1943

Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
Feb 2, 1943

First big defeat of Hitler's armies in Stalingrad, Russia.
Mar 1, 1943

Nazis builds four more new gas chambers in Auschwitz.
Mar 14, 1943

Ghettos are beginning to be liquidated.
May 19, 1943

Nazis declare Berlin to be Jew-free.
Mar 1, 1944

"Germans forces occupy Hungary." [USHMM]
Jun 6, 1944

"D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France" [USHMM]
Jul 24, 1944

Russian troops liberate their first concentration camp, the Majdanek death camp.
Nov 25, 1944

Himmler orders demolition of crematories at Auschwitz.
Jan 1, 1945

"Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex" [USHMM]
Jan 17, 1945

"Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland" [USHMM]
Apr 30, 1945

"Adolf Hitler commits suicide" [USHMM]
May 5, 1945

"Liberation of Mauthausen," [about.com - The Holocaust Timeline] by U.S. troops
May 7, 1945

"Germany surrenders to the western Allies," [USHMM] ending the war.