Chronology of the Holocaust 1933-1939

Chronology of the Holocaust - 1933
January 30 - February1	Hitler becomes Chancellor
February 3	Hitler presents Lebensraum program
February 27-March 5	Reichstag arson leads to state of emergency
March 5	Reichstag elections: Nazis gain 44 percent of vote
March 24	Enabling Act
March 22	Dachau camp established
April 1	Boycott of Jewish businesses
April 7	Civil service "reform"
April 21	Jewish ritual slaughter banned
April 25	School quota system
May 2	Dissolution of German Trade Unions
May 10	Nazis burn thousands of anti-Nazi Jewish-authored and "degenerate" books
July 14	Forced sterilization of German citizens with congenital disabilities
July 14	Germany proclaimed a one-party state
July 14	Denaturalization law
July 20	Nazi government signs Reich Concordat with the Vatican
August 20	American Jewish Congress declares boycott against Nazi Germany
August 25	Ha'avara agreement
September 13	Race theory in German schools
September 17	Reich representation of German Jews established
September 22	Reich Chamber of Culture Law
October 14-19	Germany quits League of Nations and disarmament talks
Chronology of the Holocaust - 1934
January 26	German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact
June 30	"Night of the Long Knives"
July 25	Nazi putsch in Austria fails
August 2	Hindenburg dies
Chronology of the Holocaust - 1935
January 13	Germany reclaims Saar region
February 10	Prohibition of gatherings urging Jews to remain in Germany
March 16	Military conscription in Germany
May 31	German army becomes "all-Aryan"
June 11	"Jews not welcome" signs temporarily removed
June 18	German-British naval agreement concluded
September 15	Nuremberg Laws enacted
October 30	Italy attacks Ethiopia
November 14	Additions to Nuremberg Laws
Chronology of the Holocaust - 1936
March 7	Germans enter Rhineland
March 15	Mass anti-Nazi rally in New York
June 17	Himmler appointed Chief of Police
July 16	Spanish Civil War begins
August 1	Olympic Games begin in Berlin
September 9	Four-Year Plan unveiled
October 9	Political activities of Association of Jewish War Veterans banned
October 25	Rome-Berlin Axis Agreement signed
November 25	Germany and Japan conclude Anti-Comintern Pact
Chronology of the Holocaust - 1937
March 21	Pope issues statement against racism
September 13	Jews can be released from "protective detention" by emigrating
October 21	Himmler: returning Jewish emigrants will be sent to concentration camps
November 5	German army ordered to prepare for war
November 26	Reshuffling of portfolios: Schacht resigns
Chronology of the Holocaust - 1938
March 13	Anschluss: Reich annexes Austria
March 23	Recognition of Jewish organizations revoked
March 28	Hitler incites Sudeten German Party
June 14	Jewish businesses registered as Jewish
June 15	"Operation June" - mass arrests of Jews and banishment to concentration camps
July 6	Anti-Jewish economic strictures
July 6-15	Evian Conference
August 17	Compulsory middle names for Jews
August 26	Jewish Emigration Office opens in Vienna
September 27	Jewish lawyers debarred
September 29	Munich Agreement: England and France accept German annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia
October 5	Passports of German Jews marked with the letter "J"
October 6	Germany annexes Sudetenland
October 28	17,000 Polish-born Jews expelled from Germany to Poland; most interned in Zbaszyn
November 7-10	Grynszpan affair and the Kristallnacht pogrom
November 10	Italy adopts antisemitic racial laws
November 12	Harsh anti-Jewish measures
November 15	Jewish children banned from German schools