Anti-semetism

By Sian Ella Calvin

  • Before 1914 Jews were seen as "outsiders"

  • The German Revoloution and proclomattion of the public

  • Theodor Wolff one of the founders of the DDP

  • Collapse of Germany's war effort led to breakdown of order on the home front

  • Murder of Rosa Luxemburg- Seen as link between Jews and Communism

  • 25 Point programme of NSDAP

  • Murder of Walther Rathenau- one of the leading industralist in Germany

  • Walther Rathenau appointed foreign minister

  • Financial crisis and hyper-inflation

  • Wemar Republic from 1924 had entered a new period of economic prosperity and political stability.

  • "Golden Years"

  • Advaances by Anti-semites in May election

  • Mein Kampf published

  • Barmat Scandal

  • Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis"

  • Wall Street Crash happened in late October of 1939 however, did not immediatly lead to deep depression.

  • Economic slump at its worst

  • Majdanek200,000 people died there,60% were Jews the others included Soviet POWS or Polish political prisoners.

  • Chelmno (Kulmhof)40 miles from Lodz and was the first established killing center.

  • Wannsee Conference

  • BelzecMore than half a million Jews were killed there

  • Round up of Jews from Vichy France

    Round up of Jews from Vichy France

  • Concentration of all killings at Auschwitz

    Concentration of all killings at Auschwitz

  • Start of departations of Reich Jews from Germany

  • Mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz

  • The destruction and evacuation of Auschwitz1945,

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

  • Liberation of Belsen and KZ Mauthausen

  • Hitler's Suicide

  • Germany's surrender