events of the holocaust between 1931-1945

  • Public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state

  • Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him

  • "Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

  • Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces

  • Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens

  • Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • 17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn

  • Jews across Western Eurpe are being forced into ghettos and more rights are taken away.

  • France surrenders

  • 80-85% of all the Jewish people who would die in the Holocaust already have been murdered.

  • Nazi officials discuss the "Final Solution" to the government officials.

  • Hitler is defeated and World War II ends in Europe.

  • Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered.