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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor
January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000 (source picture and information http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html) -
Dachau Concentration Camp
March 22, 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women. (information- http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html picture-jewishvirtuallibrary.org) -
No Qualification for Jews
July 22, 1934 - Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualification. (source-http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html
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Nazis pass law
June 26, 1935 - Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases. (picture-flickrhivemind.net) -
Krisallnacht
November 9/10 1938- Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass. (picture- beyondthebookthief.blogspot.com) -
Invade Poland
September 1, 1939 - Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning of SS activity in Poland. (pictue- portalacademico.cch.unam.mx) -
Yellow Stars
November 23, 1939 - Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10. (picture- hetireland.org) -
Auschwitz
March 1, 1941 - Himmler makes his first visit to Auschwitz, during which he orders Kommandant Höss to begin massive expansion, including a new compound to be built at nearby Birkenau that can hold 100,000 prisoners. (picture -liberation-of-auschwitz.holocaust.klup.info) -
War on USA
December 11, 1941 - Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and will concentrate nearly 90 percent of its military resources to defeat Hitler. (picture- thomasrlane.wordpress.com) -
Drancy Camp
July 16/17 - 12,887 Jews of Paris are rounded up and sent to Drancy Internment Camp located outside the city. A total of approximately 74,000 Jews, including 11,000 children, will eventually be transported from Drancy to Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor. (picture -ushmm.org) -
Escape
April 7, 1944 - Two Jewish inmates escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau and make it safely to Czechoslovakia. One of them, Rudolf Vrba, submits a report to the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia which is forwarded to the Vatican, received there in mid June. picture- pbs.prg -
Free
April 15, 1945 - Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth." (picture-isurvived.org)
