KEY DATES

APRIL 1, 1933
NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF JEWISH-OWNED BUSINESSES
Storm Troopers (SA) and SS (the elite guard of the Nazi state) stand in front of Jewish-owned businesses throughout Germany to inform the public that the proprietors of these establishments are Jewish. The word "Jude," German for "Jew," is often smeared on store display windows, with a Star of David painted in yellow and black across the doors. 

SEPTEMBER 15, 1935
NUREMBERG LAWS ARE INSTITUTED
Jews considered a second-class citizens and revoke most of their political rights.

Jews are:

1.       Prohibited from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood" ("Racial infamy").

2.        Define a "Jew" as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents or who is a practicing Jew.

3.       The Nazis classify as Jews thousands of people who have converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish.

NOVEMBER 9, 1938
"KRISTALLNACHT": A NATIONWIDE POGROM (“La Noche de los Cristales Rotos”)

Began as a reponse to the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by a young Jew in Paris. The violence against Jews lasts into the morning of November 10 and becomes known as "Kristallnacht": the "Night of Broken Glass." At least 91 Jews are killed and up to 30,000 more are arrested and confined in concentration camps.