January 30: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reich Chancellor (Prime Minister) of the NSDAP (Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
March 23: First concentration camp, Dachau, is established
April 1: Nazis proclaim a general boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses
April 7: Jews dismissed from civil service and denied admission to the bar
April 26: Formation of the Gestapo
May 2: Dissolution of free trade unions
May 10: Burning of books by Jews and opponents of Nazism
December 1: Hitler declares legal unity of the German State and Nazi Party
1934
August 2: Death of Hindenburg. Hitler becomes Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces
1935
Summer: Juden Verboten (No Jews) signs increase in number outside towns, villages, restaurants and stores
September 15: Reichstag passes anti-Semitic "Nuremberg Laws"
1936
October 25: Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis
November 25: Germany and Japan sign military pact
1937
July 16: Buchenwald concentration camp opens
1938
March 13: Annexation of Austria to the Third Reich. Nazis apply anti-Semitic laws.
July 6: International conference at Evian, France, fails to provide refuge for German Jews
September 29: Munich Agreement: Britain and France accept German annexation of Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia
October 5: Passports of Jews are marked with the letter "J"
November 7: Herschel Grynszpan, whose parents were deported from Germany to Poland, assassinates Ernst vom Rath, the Secretary of the German Embassy in Paris
November 9: Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), antisemitic riots in Germany and Austria, synagogues are destroyed, shop are looted.
November 12: 26,000 Jews are arrested and sent to concentration camps
November 15: Jewish children are expelled from German schools
December 13: Decree on "Aryanization" (compulsory expropriation of Jewish industries, businesses and shops) is enacted
1939
March 15: Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
July 26: Adolf Eichmann is placed in charge of Prague branch of the emigration office
August 23: Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact
September 1: German Army invades Poland. Beginning of World War Il
September 3: Britain and France declare war on Germany
September 17: Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland
October 12: First deportation of Jews from Austria and Moravia to Poland
November 23: Wearing of Judenstern (Jewish six-pointed Star of David) is made compulsory throughout occupied Poland
1940
April 9: Germans invade Denmark and Norway
April 30: Ghetto at Lodz, Poland is sealed off
May 10: Germans invade Holland, Belgium and France
June 4: British Army evacuates its forces from Dunkirk, France
June 22: France surrenders to the Germans
September 27: Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis is established
November 15: Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off
1941
June 22: Germans attack the Soviet Union
July 8: Wearing of the Jewish star is decreed in the German occupied Baltic states
July 31: Heydrich is appointed by Goering to carry out "The Final Solution" (extermination of all Jews in Europe)
September 15: Wearing of the Jewish star is decreed throughout the Greater Reich
September 23: First experiments with gassing are made at Auschwitz
October 10: Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia is established
October 14: Deportation of German Jews begins
October 23: Massacre in Odessa - 34,000 dead
October 28: Massacre in Kiev - 34,000 dead
November 6: Massacre in Rovno - 15,000 dead
December 7: Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
December 8: United States enters the war
December 8: Chelmno extermination camp on the Ner River in Poland is opened
December 8: Massacre in Riga- 27,000 dead
December 22: Massacre in Vilna - 32,000 dead
1942
January 20: Wannsee Conference on Nazi "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
January 21: Unified resistance organization is established in Vilna Ghetto. Jewish resistance groups expand in number throughout Eastern Europe.
June 1: Treblinka death camp opens. Wearing of the Jewish star is decreed in Nazi-occupied France and Holland. I
July 22: 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto are deported to Treblinka
July 28: Jewish resistance organization is, established in the Warsaw Ghetto.
October 17: Allied nations pledge to punish Germans for their policy of genocide
1943
January 18: Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto-launch uprising against Nazi deportations. Street fighting lasts for four days.
February 2: German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad. This marks the turning point in the war
April 19: Revolt of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begins. Fighting continues for weeks
May 16: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
June 11: Himmler orders liquidation of all Polish Jewish ghettos
June-September: Hundreds of Jewish partisans leave the Vilna Ghetto for the forest where, they continue their resistance to the Nazis.
August,2: Revolt at Treblinka death camp
August 16: Revolt in Bialystok Ghetto
September 23: Liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto
October 20: United Nations War Crimes Commission is established
1944
May 5-June 8: 476,000 Jews are deported from Hungary to Auschwitz
June 4: Allies in Rome
June 6: D-Day, Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe begins in Normandy, France
June 23: Soviet summer offensive begins
July 24: Soviet troops liberate Maidanek death camp
October 23: Paris is liberated by Allied armies'
November 24: Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz crematoria as Nazis try to hide evidence of the death camps
1945
January 17: Soviet troops liberate Warsaw
February 4-11: Yalta Conference in the Crimea
March 5: American troops reach the Rhine River
April 11: American troops liberate Buchenwald death camp.
April 15: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen death camp
April 25: American and Soviet troops meet at the Elbe River'
April 30: Hitler commits suicide
May 7: Germany surrenders unconditionally. End of the war inEurope
August 15: Japan surrenders unconditionally. End of World War 11
November 22: Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal commences
The Nuremberg Trials concluded on October 1, 1946, which happened to be the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), with a judgment in which twelve defendants were sentenced to death, three to life imprisonment, four to various prison terms, and three acquitted.