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Holocaust Timeline

  • Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
    The Nazi Party, assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government.
  • The Reichstag Fire Decree

    The Reichstag Fire Decree
    There was Reichstag Fire Decree due to arson. The Nazis and the Nationalists blamed the communists and used the Reichstag fire decree to exploit president Hindenburg's approval for an emergency decree that suspended individual rights and due process of law.
  • Anti - Jewish Boycott

    Anti - Jewish Boycott
    3 months after Hilter was announced chancellor he started an economic boycott targeting Jewish-owned businesses and the offices of Jewish professionals.
  • Laws limited Jews from Public schools

    Laws limited Jews from Public schools
    Some rules that were adding into limited Jews and their rights were that a limited number of Jewish students in any one public school to no more than 5 percent of the total student population.
  • Book Burning

    Book Burning
    Anything that was considered non-German like was against the law part of an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas, university students in college towns across Germany burned thousands of books they considered to be “un-German,” heralding an era of state censorship and cultural control.
  • Law for the "Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases"

    Law for the "Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases"
    This new law provides a basis for the involuntary sterilization of people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness, Roma (Gypsies), “asocial elements,” and Afro-Germans.
  • Law against "Dangerous Habitual Criminals"

    Law against "Dangerous Habitual Criminals"
    ” The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. It also provides for the castration of sex offenders.
  • Death of German President von Hindenburg

    Death of German President von Hindenburg
    German President Paul von Hindenburg dies. Hitler now becomes the absolute dictator of Germany; there are no legal or constitutional limits to his authority.