Holocaust 1928-1945

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    Holocaust 1928-1945

  • Nazi Party Elections

    Nazi party only won 2.6% of the total vote in Reichstag.

  • Start of the Depression

    The Great Depression brought economic troubles worldwide.

  • Nazi Party Second Elections

    Nazi party won election by having 18.3% of the total votes and making it the second largest party in the Reichstag.

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    appointed by President Hindenburg

  • Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany

  • Nuremberg Race Laws

    Excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or German-related blood."

  • German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland

  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anshluss (Union)

    From March 11-13, 1938

  • Munich Agreement

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement

    between the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in which it promised not to attack the other

  • Germany invades Poland

    Starting WW2 in Europe

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

  • Germany attacks western Europe

    France and the Low Countries

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Germnay invades Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • Einsatzgruppen

    (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,00 Jews at the Seventh Fort, on the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

    U.S. declares war the next day

  • Nazi Germany declares war on the U.S.

  • Deportation begins

    Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center

  • Deportation of Netherlands

    100,000 Jews deported to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)

  • Warsaw deportation

    Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killins center

  • Warsaw ghetto uprisings begins

  • Battle of Kursk

  • Rescue of Jews in Denmark

  • German forces occupy Hungary

  • D-Day

    Allied forces invade Normandy, France

  • Soviet troops liberate the Auschwits comap complex

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets