Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg
Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler
Armed forces must now swear allegiance to Hitler
Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions
Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
Buchenwald concentration camp opens
Flossenburg concentration camp opens
17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled
Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
Ravensbruck concentration camp opens
Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
Neuengamme concentration camp opens
Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered
Germany invades the Soviet Union
Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered
Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp Summer Deportation of Jews to killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, and Poland; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Kremenets, Lachva, Mir, and Tuchin
