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Hitler is born
Hitler is born in a small Austrian village. -
The Nazi party is formed
Hitler was released from prison and reformed and reorganised the Nazi Party. The party chairman was Anton Drexlor. -
Population before Holocaust
Over 9 million Jews lived in Europe, working and raising families in the harsh reality of the worldwide economic depression. -
Beginning of the Holocaust
The regime established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous.” -
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women. -
Germany becomes independent
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. -
Hitler as president
Adolph Hitler declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich after the death of Paul von Hindenburg. -
Poland Ghetto
The first Polish ghetto is established. -
Paris taken over by Nazis
Paris is occupied by the Nazis. -
Anti-Jews riot
Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered. -
Addition to Birkenau Camp
Construction begins on Birkenau, an addition to the Auschwitz camp. Birkenau includes a killing center which begins operations in early 1942. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. -
Mass Killing in Camps
Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers. -
Holocaust is over
Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. -
WWII is over
Japan surrenders; end of World War II
