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On this day Adolf Hitler was giving the title of chancellor by the German Reichstag. He was a very public political figure at the time and he had taken advantage of the fact that he was a veteran of the first world war, and the fact that Germany was in an economic depression.
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The first concentration camp is open in Dachau Germany. This would set the stage for 12 years more with the creations of dozens of extermination concentration camps.
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The president of Germany dies, causing Hitler to gain control over all of Germanys assets and power
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These documents were extremely racist and anti-Semitic that took basic human rights from jews in Germany
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On this day Nazi Germany annexes Austria in an attempt to unite the German speaking nations
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This agreement let Germany get some land from the Czechs. This was used to try and cool down Adolf Hitler
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This was signed by the Germans and the Soviets as an agreement to not attack each other.
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On this day Germany invades Poland. This event is seen as the start of WWII by most historians. Germany introduces the Blitzkrieg strategy. The Germans won.
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This is the invasion of France by the Germans that ended up conquering Paris. The French put up a well fought fight to protect their nation, but the Blitzkrieg method proved to be too much. This was important because this shows that Germany can defeat countries that were once very powerful during past wars like WWI. The Germans won.
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The most deadly British air encounter over a large period of time, this event changed many aspects of the war including the Lend Lease act that gave the British a lot of supplies from the U.S
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The Germans join the Axis powers joining Italy and later Japan in WWII.
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Adolf Hitler abandons the invasion plans on England, turning his sights to the east after an estimated loss of 1700 planes and 2662 pilots and crew. This is considered the first major loss for the Germans in the west.
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This Battle caused the Germans to lose their largest ship of the war was sunk after two days of fighting.
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Germans start operation Barbarossa, the attempt at invading the USSR.
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The Germans attack the key city of Leningrad for the first time
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This conference was put togather by the SS to make a plan to kill all European Jews.
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The German military lost the battle and an estimated 250,000 solders and never captured the city of Stalingrad. The main reason that they lost this battle was because of the Germans overlooking the preparedness for winter. This is seen as the start of the end of the war for the Germans.
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After three years of fighting the germans are forced to surrender in North Africa. This is the end of the largest use of tanks in the war at the time.
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After Italy formally surrendered to the allies in 1943 Germany took over the North and central of Italy and also occupied Rome.
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This four year long siege was a major defeat at Leningrad costing the Germans over half a million soldiers. This is significant because it was a very large waste of time and resources that crippled the eastern front.
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Allied troops land in Normandy on the west coast of Nazi occupied territory making the war a three front war for Germany
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The first concentration camp is liberated by the Soviet troops
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The Germans were pushed back and out of Paris by both allied solders and by the resistance of the citizens of France.
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In Warsaw the poles that disliked Germans joined the home army to liberate Warsaw. The Germans ended up losing Warsaw because of this.
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The renowned car company Porsche. Porsche produced the panzer class tank from 1936-1945 producing upwards of 45,000 units over the course of nine years.
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This battle was a long fight that lasted over a month. This is considered the last great counter offensive by the Germans. The Germans ended up losing between 80,000 to 100,000 solders during this battle.
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This battle was the final nail in the coffin for the Germans and it also split up the East Berlin and West Berlin for many years to come.
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The germans produced upwards of 34.6 million tons of steel during the war. This steel went into ships, tanks, cars, wagons, and guns.
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The germans gave a major blow to the allies by killing at least 60,000 sailers and merchant marines, but they lost about 30,000 German sailers and upward of 700 U-boats
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This was the final day that the Nazi Third Rech existed. With the surrender that was agreed upon the country was split. On the east was the communist Soviets who controlled it until the fall of the USSR. In the east is the capitalist nations controlled the country.
