Opening of a concentration camp for political prisoners near Dacha
Several thousand Americans attend a pro-Nazi rally in Queens. New York
The Gestapo prison Columbia-Haus in Berlin becomes a concentration camp.
Italy invades Ethiopia.
Spanish Civil War begins
The concentration camp Columbia-Haus is dissolved.
Himmler discloses that about 8,000 prisoners are in concentration camps for protective custody.
Germany signs military agreement with Japan.
Jews eliminated from the economy in Germany. Their assets can be seized.
The employment of Jews in businesses was banned.
Schacht was dismissed as President of the Reichsbank.
The Jewish refugee ship the St. Louis arrives in Belgium after being denied access to Cuba and the United States. Most of the passengers are eventually murdered by the Nazis
German troops invade Denmark and Norway.
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France invaded and occupied
Operation Barbarossa - 3 million German troops invaded Russia
German advance in Russia halted by Russian winter and Russian counterattacks.
Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered
German troops defeated at the Second Battle of El Alamein in North Africa
First allied bombing raid on German cities
German forces mount a new offensive in Russia
Soviet troops experience success against the Germans in the Crimea
July Bomb Plot failed attempt to assassinate Hitler
Liberation of the camp by US Army troops
V-E Day: German surrender confirmed
German advance in Russia halted by Russian winter and Russian counterattacks.