WWII

  • January 30

    Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg
  • March 22

    The first offical Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village loacated near Munich
  • April 1

    Boycott of Jewish shops and busniesses
  • April 7

    Laws of Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding Civil service, university, and state positions
  • April 26

    The Gestapo is establish by Herman Goering, minister of Prussia
  • May 10

    Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state
  • July 14

    Law exclusing East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship
  • August 2

    Hitler proclaims himself Fuührer und Reichskanzler. Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him
  • May 31

    Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
  • September 15

    "Nuremberg Laws": first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag
  • November 15

    Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish granparents who identities as a Jew
  • March 3

    Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German instituions
  • March 7

    Germans march in the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty
  • June 17

    Reichführer SS Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police
  • July 12

    Sachsenhausen concentration camp open
  • October 25

    Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
  • July 15

    Buchenwald concentration camp opens
  • March 13

    Anschluss: all anti-semitic decrees immediately applied in Austria
  • April 26

    Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich
  • May 3

    Flossenburg concentration camp ones
  • July 6

    Evian Conference held in Eivan, France on the problem of Jewish refugees
  • August 1

    Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emmigrantion in Vienna to increase the pace of forced
  • August 3

    Italy enacts sweeping anti-semitic laws
  • August 8

    Mauthausen concentration camps open in Atlanta
  • September 30

    Muinch Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Studetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia
  • October 5

    Following request by Swiss authorities, German mark all Jewish passports with a larger letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland
  • Oct 28

    17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are standed the frontier village of Zbaszyn
  • Nov 7

    Assassination in Paris of German diplomat Erns won by Hershcel Grynszpan
  • WWII End & Start

    Start: 1939
    End: 1945