1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1933 The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1933 Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1937 The Nazi exhibition ''Der ewige Jude'' ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1939 Holocaust: The {{MS|St. Louis}}, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
1941 Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1941 Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1942 World War II: in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
1942 World War II: Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich.
1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1943 The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1943 Rebellion in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka.
1943 World War II: in Denmark, a general strike against the Nazi occupation is started.
1944 World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1944 Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
1944 World War II King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of General Antonescu, who is arrested. Romania switches sides from the Axis to the Allies.
1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1944 World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
1944 World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1945 The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Out more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
1945 World War II: Canadian and UK troops liberate the Netherlands and Denmark from Nazi occupation when Wehrmacht troops capitulate
1945 Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.
1946 Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1960 In Buenos Aires, Argentina, four Israeli Mossad agents capture fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann who is living under the alias of Ricardo Klement.
1961 The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with verdicts of guilty on 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
1987 The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1993 The Israeli Supreme Court acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.