Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.
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January 30, 1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Hindenburg.
March 20, 1933
The Schutzstaffel opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
April 1, 1933
The Nazis carry out a boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses.
September 15, 1935
The Nuremberg Race Laws are passed, which state that Jews are no longer citizens of the Reich and that they cannot marry non-Jews, or Aryans. They were prohibited from voting or holding public office.
November 9, 1938
Also continued on November 10, Kristallnacht, or "The Night of Broken Glass", took place. This was a nationwide Pogrom in which SS officers destroyed Jewish shops, homes, and businesses.
October 8, 1939
The Germans established their first ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. They segregated Jews from Aryans, and forced them to live in overcrowded communities under terrible conditions.
November 23, 1939
Jews living in the General Government (German-controlled part of Poland) are required to wear a blue star of David on a white armband.
December 7, 1941
The Night and Fog Decree gave Nazis the power to take any Jew that posed as a threat to their regime. These people would "disappear into the night and fog".
January 16, 1942
The Nazis send more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz, Poland, to the Chelmno killing center.
March 27, 1942
Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from the Drancy Camp (outside of Paris), to the east, mostly to Auschwitz.
July 15, 1942
The Nazis begin deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands to the east, the majority to Auschwitz.
July 22, 1942
Nazis begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. By September, they have deported about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.
April 19, 1943
The Warsaw uprising begins- a "heroic and tragic struggle to liberate Warsaw from the Nazis". For more info: http://www.warsawuprising.com/
May 15, 1944
The Nazis begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
January 18, 1945
Death March of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp.
January 25, 1945
Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stuthoff camp in northern Poland.
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