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The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau.
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The Reichstag building was burned down.
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The Nazi Party won 92% of the votes cast in an election.
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President Hindenburg died. Hitler declared himself both Chancellor and President. The armed forces in response to the Night of the Long Knives swore an oath of loyalty to Hitler. Hjalmar Schacht was appointed Minister of Economics.
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A law introducing compulsory labor service was introduced.
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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
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Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
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The national bank and the railway system were both put under the control of the state.
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.
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The start of the closure of all Jewish businesses occurred along with their compulsory sale to ‘Aryans’.
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Germany invades Poland. France and Britain declare war on Germany. Germany conquered Poland and France. The Nazi's ran most of Europe.
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An estimated 158,000 British troops are now in France.
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the number of camps exploded to more than 300
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The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.
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the SS, along with doctors and officials of the T-4 Euthanasia Program, introduced the Action 14f13 programme meant for extermination of selected concentration camp prisoners.
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Four million troops went to Russia. Within one month, over 2.5 million Russians had been killed, wounded or captured.
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Jan Karski delivered a thorough eyewitness account to the government.
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The US destroyed hundreds of Japanese planes and regained control of the Pacific. The Japanese continued to fight even though the war in Europe was over.
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The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies. The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12.
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Dwight Eisenhower led US troops and Allied troops in an invasion of France. They got through France and Belgium and into Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered.
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The Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross movement carries out a coup d’état with German support to prevent the Hungarian government from pursuing negotiations for surrender to the Soviets.
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The camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945.
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Sometimes the concentration camps were used to hold important prisoners, such as the generals involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler; U-boat Captain-turned-Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller; and Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, who was interned at Flossenbürg on February 7, 1945, until he was hanged on April 9, shortly before the war’s end.
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The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
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Having agreed in principle to unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945, Japan formally surrenders, ending World War II.
