The Holocaust - Timeline

German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers

Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship

Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land

Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors

Jews not allowed national health insurance

Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications

German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.

Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers

Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed

The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances

Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine

Nazis require Jewish women to add Sarah and men to add Israel to their names on all legal documents including passports.

Jews are prohibited from all legal practices

Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a large red "J."

Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.

Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht

Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech

Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items

Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.

German Jews ordered into forced labor

The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz

German Jews ordered to wear yellow stars.

Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow

In occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-B

At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.

Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz