Holocaust

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 31, 1933

Hitler became the Chencellor of Germany. Conservative leader Alfred Hugenburg disagreed with Hitlers view over new elections. This was the final arguement between them before Hitler finally became Chancellor.

Nazis burn Reichstag building

Feb 27, 1933

The Reichstag building was the home of the German government. Nazi soldiers burned down Reichstag on February 27 1933. This allowed Hitler to seize power.

Nazis open Dachau concentration camp

Mar 22, 1933

The Dachau concentration camp was opened near Munich. Directly after the Bunchenwald near Weimar central Germany. Sachsenhausen was then opened near Berlin in Northern Germany.

Nazis stage boycott of Jewish businesses

Apr 1, 1933

Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels incited the crowd in Berlin Lustgarten to boycott Jewish businesses. Nazis forced three Jewish businessmen to march down Bruehl Strasse. It is one of the main commercial streets in central Leipzig. They forced them to carry signs that read: "Don't buy from Jews; Shop in German businesses!"

Aryan Race

Apr 11, 1933

Germans describe anyone who is not Aryan... "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."

Nazi party

Jul 14, 1933

The Nazi party is declared the only legal party in Germany. Germans strip Polish immigrant Jews of their citizenship in Germany. They strip Jews of their rights.

Concentration Camps

Nov 24, 1933

Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals. This allows the Nazi party to send criminals beggers homeless alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.

Abortion Law

Jun 26, 1935

The Nazis pass a law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases

Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.

Jun 17, 1936

"I know there are many people in Germany who feel sick at the very sight of this black (SS) uniform," said Himmler in 1936. "We understand this and we do not expect to be loved...All those who have Germany at heart, will and should respect us. All those who in some way or at some time have a bad conscience in respect to the Führer and the nation should fear us. For these people we have constructed an organization called the SD (SS security service) and in the same way...the Gestapo (secret state

Olympic games begin in Berlin.

Aug 1, 1936

Germany built a brand new stadium for the olympic games. As Hitler entered the stadium the entire german croud stood up and soluted him. But then Jesse Owens pooped on all the Germans.

Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech.

Jan 30, 1939

"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem.Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing"

Jews are forbidden from going outside...

Sep 1, 1939

Officially on September first 1939 Jews are not aloud to go outside. In the winter Jews have to be inside at by 8 pm. And in the summer they had to be in by 9 pm.

Great Britain and France declare war

Sep 3, 1939

Great Britian and France declare war on Germany.

Jews gathered into ghettos

Sep 21, 1939

"Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen in Poland regarding treatment of Jews, they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal."

Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60

Oct 26, 1939

Jews were sent to consentration camps to do labor. These jews were treated poorly and got way underfed. They would usually die from starvation.

Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.

Nov 23, 1939

Stars were worn by Jews to identify them. If a Jew was caught not wearing the star they were to be punished. The star was called the star of david.

Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim

Jan 25, 1940

Oswiecim Auschwitz in Poland is the site of a new concentration camp. This camp would end up being the most brutal concentration camp they would make.

The Lodz Ghetto

Apr 30, 1940

The Lodz Ghetto is occupied. It is then sealed off from the outside world. 230,000 Jews are trapped inside.

The Warsaw Ghetto

Nov 15, 1940

The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off

35,000 Jews from Odessa shot

Oct 1, 1941

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.

Mass Killing

Jan 7, 1942

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

Belzec

Mar 4, 1942

In occupied Poland, Belzec extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.

Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.

Jul 7, 1942

Possestions and Valuables

Sep 26, 1942

SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz.

Himmler orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek.

Oct 5, 1942

Newly built gas chamber/crematory

Mar 31, 1943

Newly built gas chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz

Gas Chambers

Jun 25, 1943

Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies

Jews from Hungary

May 16, 1944

Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons - half of the Jews in Hungary - arrive at Auschwitz

Invasion

Jan 14, 1945

Invasion of eastern Germany by Russian troops

Berlin

Apr 23, 1945

Berlin is reached by Russian troops

Hitler Commits Suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler Commits suicide