1933
30 January 1933

Hitler appointed as Chancellor
27 February 1933

Reichstag fire
5 March 1933

Reichstag Elections
21 March 1933

'Day of Potsdam'
22 March 1933

Dachau Established
23 March 1933

Enabling Act
1 April 1933

Boycott Day
7 April 1933

'Reform' of the Civil Service
21 April 1933

Ban on Ritual Slaugther
10 May 1933

Book Burning
14 July 1933

Sterilisation Law
20 July 1933

Reich Concordat
25 August 1933

Haavara Agreement
17 September 1933

Reich Representative Council of German Jews
22 September 1933

Law on Reich Chamber of Culture
4 October 1933

Editorship Law
14 October 1933

Germany Leaves the League of Nations

1934
26 January 1934

German-Polish Non-Aggression-Pact
22 April 1934

Heydrich appointed Head of Gestapo
30 June 1934

'Night of the Long Knives'
20 July 1934

Independence of SS
25 July 1934

Assassination of Dollfuss
2 August 1934

Death of Hindenburg
5 October 1934

NSDAP party rally at Nuremberg

1935
13 January 1935

Referendum on Saar
16 March 1935

Germany Renews Conscription
1 April 1935

Benches 'For Aryans only'
25 May 1935

Anti-Jewish riots
31 May 1935

Jews barred from military service
18 June 1935

Anglo-German Naval Agreement
16 July 1935

Anti-Jewish Demonstrations
6 September 1935

Sale of newspapers to Jews prohibited
15 September 1935

Nuremberg Laws
15 September 1935

Prohibition of credits to Jews
18 October 1935

Marriage Protection Laws

1936
6 February 1936

Winter Olympic Games
7 March 1936

Invasion of Rhineland
9 May 1936

End of second Italo-Abyssinian War
12 July 1936

Sachsenhausen camp established
17 July 1936

Spanish Civil War begins
1 August 1936

Olympic Games
25 October 1936

Agreement on the Rome-Berlin Axis
18 November 1936

Germany sends military support to Franco in Spain
25 November 1936

Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
1 December 1936

Compulsory Membership of Hitler Youth

1937
26 April 1937

German Bombing of Guernica
15 July 1937

Buchenwald Camp established
19 July 1937

Exhibition of 'Degenerate Art' opens
25 September 1937

Mussolini visits Germany
6 November 1937

Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact
8 November 1937

Exhibition entitled 'The Eternal Jew' opens in Munich

1938
1 January 1938

Jews barred from Red Cross
12 March 1938

German invasion of Austria and the Anschluss
28 March 1938

Jewish organisations in Germany lose official status
14 June 1938

Compulsory registration of Jewish businesses
15 June 1938

Mass arrests of 'asocial' Jews
6 July 1938

Conference of Evian
17 August 1938

Compulsory middle name for Jews
27 September 1938

Barring of Jewish lawyers in Germany
29 September 1938

The Munich Conference
5 October 1938

Jewish passports stamped with a 'J'
10 October 1938

Annexation of the Sudetenland
28 October 1938

Germany expels Polish Jews
9 November 1938

November Pogrom
15 November 1938

Expulsion of Jewish children from German schools

1939
15 March 1939

German invasion of Czechoslovakia
23 August 1939

The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
1 September 1939

Beginning of Operation T-4
1 September 1939

Germany invades Poland
3 September 1939

Declaration of War
21 September 1939

Deportation of Sinti and Roma
8 November 1939

Attempted assassination of Hitler
23 November 1939

Obligatory armbands for Jews in Poland
30 November 1939

The USSR invades Finland

1940
9 April 1940

The German Army invade Denmark and Norway
30 April 1940

Sealing of Lodz Ghetto
10 May 1940

Churchill becomes Prime Minister