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January 30, 1933

President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.

March 20, 1933

** opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

April 1, 1933

Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.

April 7, 1933

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.

July 14, 1933

Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases.

September 15, 1935

Nuremberg Race Laws.

March 16, 1935

Germany introduces military conscription.

March 7, 1936

German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.

August 1, 1936

Summer Olympics begin in Berlin.

March 11-13, 1938

Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union).

November 9/10, 1938

Kristallnacht (nationwide pogrom View This Term in the Glossary in Germany).

May 13, 1939

The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.

September 29, 1938

Munich Agreement. Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany. 

August 23, 1939

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

September 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

September 17, 1939

The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.

October 8, 1939

German officials establish what is likely the first Nazi ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.

April 9, 1940

German forces invade Denmark and Norway.

May 10, 1940

Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).

July 10, 1940

The Battle of Britain begins.

April 6, 1941

German forces invade Yugoslavia and Greece.

June 22, 1941

Germany invades the Soviet Union.

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