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Important dates
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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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Members of the Nazi Party and its affiliated organizations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
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The Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limits the number of Jewish students in public schools
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Books deemed "un-German" are publicly burned throughout Germany.
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The US declared their isolation.
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laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood."
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Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937
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German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich
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settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders
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Jews must surrender their old passports, which will become valid only after the letter “J” has been stamped on them.
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members of the Nazi Party and other Nazi formations burn synagogues, loot Jewish homes and businesses, and kill at least 91 Jews.
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provided that Germany would exchange manufactured goods for Soviet raw materials also agreed to not attack one another.
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe
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When Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, the Jewish population was approximately 7,500, accounting for 0.2% of the country's total population. In Norway, Germany sought to secure naval bases for use against the British fleet in the North Sea and to guarantee vital iron-ore shipments from neutral Sweden
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Germans begin the first in a long series of bombing raids against Great Britain
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largest German military operation of World War II. The Destruction of the soviet union permanented elimination of the perceived Communist threat to Germany
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all people that are jewish above the age of 6 must wear this badge
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German authorities begin deporting Jews from central Europe to ghettos in occupied eastern territory
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Japan launches a surprise attack on the United States Pacific fleet
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President Roosevelt asks the US Congress to declare war on Japan following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
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The "Final Solution"
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German forces attack the Soviet Union
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German Surrenderat Stalingrad
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German forces occupy Axis ally Hungary and install pro-German General Dome Sztojay as prime minister
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German military officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler
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Prisoners assigned to Crematorium IV at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center rebelled after learning that they were going to be killed
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Germans advanced as much as 50 miles in some areas, the Ardennes offensive was short-lived. Despite taking dreadful losses, US forces managed to delay the enemy sufficiently to permit reinforcements to be moved into position to halt the German drive
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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German armed forces surrender unconditionally to Allied forces in the west.
