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First Concentration camp
The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich -
Taking Jews citizenship
Law excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship. -
Hitler claims Leader and Reich Chancellor
Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him. -
First anti-Jewish racial laws enacted
"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. -
Germany defines a "Jew"
Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew. -
Jewish doctors can't do medicine
Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions. -
Germans march into the Rhineland
Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty. -
Buchenwald opens
Buchenwald concentration camp opens. -
17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled
17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn. -
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen). -
All Jews expelled
All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools -
Germans occupy Czechoslovakia.
The Germans take Czechoslovakia. -
Ravensbruck opens.
Ravensbruck concentration camp opens. -
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First Polish ghetto
First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow. -
Jews in occupied Poland forced to wear yellow star
Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star. -
Battle of Britain begins
Battle of Britain begins -
Final Solution
Heydrich appointed by Göring to implement the "Final Solution" -
Pearl Harbor is attacked and U.S. declares war
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and US declares war on Japan and Germany -
Extermination begins in Belzec
Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered -
Armed Revolt
Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp -
D-Day
D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy -
Evacuation of Auschwitz
Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march -
V-J Day
V-J Day: Victory over Japan proclaimed -
End of World War 2
Japan surrenders; end of World War II