| 1919, Jan 5 |
Hitler joins the German Worker's Party (later known as the National Socialist Party). |
| 1921, July |
Hitler becomes chairman of the Nazi. |
| 1933, Jan 30 |
Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany when the Nazis becomes the political party in power in Germany. |
| Mar 20 |
Camp Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is built. |
| Mar 24 |
Enabling Act is passed, enabling Hitler to annul the right of habeus corpus and other constitutional rights. |
| April 7 |
Laws are passed prohibiting Jews from working in government offices. |
| Sept |
Jews are removed from public life in Germany. |
| 1934, Aug 2 |
German president Paul von Hindenburg dies. |
| 1935, Sep. 15 |
The Nuremberg Laws define the Jews as belonging to a racial group instead of a religious group. Jews have their German citizenship taken away. |
| 1938, Jul. 6 |
Evian Conference is held with attendees from thirty-two nations to find ways for the Jews to escape the Nazis’ occupied lands. Very little progress is made toward solving the refugee problem. |
| Nov. 9 |
Jews in Germany and Austria attacked and 30,000 Jews put in concentration camps. |
| 1939, Sep. 1 |
Nazi Germany invades Poland. |
| Sep. 1 |
Curfew established which prohibits Jews from being outdoors after 8 p.m. |
| Sep. 3 |
France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. WWII begins. |
| Oct. 8 |
The first ghetto is established by the Nazis in Piotrkow, Poland. |
| 1940, Nov. 15 |
The Warsaw ghetto is sealed. |
| 1941, Jun. 23 |
The Einsatzgruppen, a mobile killing squad, begins actions in the Soviet Union. |
| Sep. 3 |
Experimental gassing of prisoners in Auschwitz begins. |
| Dec. 8 |
The first transport of Jews arrives at Chelmo extermination camp. Approximately 320,000 Jews were killed here. |
| 1942, Mar. 17 |
Killings begin at the Belzec extermination camp. Evidence of Hitler’s goal to exterminate the European Jewry is shown through the murder of millions of Jews at various camps. Jews are transported from various locations throughout Europe to these extermination camps and killed. |
| 1945, Jan. 19 |
Lodz is liberated by the Soviet army |
| April 29 |
Hitler and his wife commit suicide |
| May 7 |
The Germans surrender to the Allies. |
