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Hitler rises to power
On this day, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. This is important because he "started" the holocuast -
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Main dates of the Holocaust
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Nazis stage boycott
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses. This is important because this is when they started discriminating jews. -
No Jews allowed in the military
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military. Even more Jews are being discriminated against. They don't even have the right to fight for their country. -
Jews not allowed to have gold and/or silver
Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items. These items might have been family heirlooms or very important to the Jewish family, but the Nazis took it anyway. -
Proclamation on isolation of Jews
Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews. Now, things are really getting into action. The Jewish people are starting to be sent to concentration camps. -
Must wear yellow stars
Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10. This is significant because the Jews are starting to be reconized as "bad" and "not people at all". -
Nazis chose Aushwitz
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp. This is significant because they major concentration camp is being made. -
Mass killings begin
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. Now they are starting to really kill the Jews and are trying to make genocide happen. -
More jews must wear yellow stars
Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars. They are discriminating them even more. -
Second gas chamber made operational
At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II, is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving. Now they are really killing the Jews in mass numbers. -
Adolf Hitler dies
Hitler dies. The holocaust is all over, or is it?!
