Ani's Holocaust Timeline

Treaty of Versailles

1919

1. Lose Land
   
2. Lose Military
   3.Payback money to winners
   Germany got mad because they had to pay an unreachable amount of money. Their economy was very low. This made them want to blame someone! They blamed Jews and so they tried to kill them.

Hyperinflation

1923

price of bread in Germany in 1923

Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 8, 1923

Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government

Hitler on Trial

1924

Uses trial to give huge speech further blaming jews for the problems of Germany

Republic Style Government

Period: Jan 1, 1924 to Dec 30, 1933

Anne Frank is Born

Jun 12, 1929

Hitler becomes Chancellor

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler is a man from the Nazi party who had great speaking talents so he gained power.

Holocaust

Period: Jan 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945

The Nazis killed 6 million Jews and 5 million undesirables

Reichstag Fire

Feb 27, 1933

Hitler blames Communists

Enabling Act

Mar 23, 1933

Power of decision making "Temporarily"

First Concentration Camps

Mar 25, 1933

POLITICAL PRISONERS and work camps/hard labor NOT FOR KILLING!

Nuremberg Laws

1935

Identify Jews

Appeasement

1938

German Army moves into AUSTRIA and Germany annexes CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

First real act of violence against the Jews

Euthanasia Program Begins

1939

Systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life" because of mental illness or physical disability.
Eventually, 80,000 people with disabilities will be killed.

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Poland (3 million Jews)
Germany (6 hundred thousand Jews)

Ghettos

Sep 29, 1939

Moved into by Jews

Einsatzgruppen

Period: 1941 to 1943

Mobile Killing Squads "opperational groups

Wannsee Conference "FINAL SOLUTION"

1942

Nazi leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

1943

Residents smuggled weapons in, uprising lasted for a month, SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended

Camp Rebellions

Period: Aug 1, 1943 to 1944

Treblinka (Aug. 1943), Sobibor (Oct. 1943), Auschwitz-Birkenau (1944)

Death Marches

1944

Brutal Treatment all of the way to Germany

Liberation of Concentration Camps

1945

Liberation is the act of freeing someone. Jews tried to find their families and they didn't know if they were dead or alive! Camps throughout Europe are liberated by Allied Forces.

Hitler Commits Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Nuremberg Trials

Period: 1946 to 1947

WHAT NOW?

I was born

Jul 17, 2005

It was this long ago!