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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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Hitler proclaims himself Leader and Reich Chancellor
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"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens.
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents as someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
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Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions
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Germans march into the Rhineland
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Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
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Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Evian Conference held in Evian
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Munich Conference
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17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled
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All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star
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Concentration camp established at Auschwitz
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France surrenders
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Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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34,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered
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Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria
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Hitler commits suicide
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
