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Great Depression
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
Begining of Holocaust
Law excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship. -
The Jews Arrive From Poland
The first prisoners of the Belsen Camp arrives in the from Poland. -
Deporting Prisoners
The SS and German police deport around 1,800 prisoners from the “special camp” to Auschwitz. -
Releasing Jews
The SS authorities release around 365 Jewish prisoners from the “neutrals camp,” dispatching them to the border of Spain. -
Housing for Sick and Injured
The prisoners camp begins serving as a collection camp for sick and injured prisoners from other concentration camps. This section becomes known as the “recuperation camp”. -
Hungarian Jews Arrive
The SS establishes the “Hungarian camp” (Ungarnlager) when the first transport of over 1,600 Hungarian Jews arrives in Bergen-Belsen. -
Cash Exgange
The SS permits the second transport of Hungarian Jewish prisoners to leave for Switzerland in return for cash payment. Then additional 4,200 Hungarian Jews arrive in the Hungarian camp from Hungary shortly thereafter. -
Females Begin To Come
The German authorities dissolve the POW camp in Bergen-Belsen and establish the “large women's camp for female prisoners evacuated from other concentration camps. -
Evaluating Prisoners
Shortly before British forces liberate Bergen-Belsen, the SS and police authorities “evacuate” the remaining prisoners from all four subcamps of the residence camp. -
The liberation Bergen-Belsen
This began in response to Hilters rearmament program. The barracks, along with others at Bad Fallingbostel and Munster, where positioned on the outer edges of a huge training area on the Lüneburger Heide that allowed simultaneous training of up to two divisions. -
Nuremberg War Crimes trials begin
Is a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.
