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The Start
On January 30, 1933, the Nazi party assumed control over Germany soon after President Von Hindenburg appointed him as the chancellor. Adolf was the head of a coalition government. The enabling act was the start of Hitler's dictatorship. -
Anti-Jewish Boycott
3 months after the Nazi party rose to power in Germany an economic boycott on Jewish-owned businesses emerged. The germans need a scapegoat and the Jews were the "perfect" target in the eyes of the Nazi party. With the goal to drive out the Jews, this boycott represented an act of "revenge." This boycott signified the first action against the Jews in a violent way in which it would later culiminate into the Holocaust. -
Absolute Dictator
After the death of former President Von Hindenburg, Hitler was next in line. Unfortunately, he had other plans to rule. He abolishes the office of president and declares himself a Fuhrer. In this Hitler is not bound by the laws of the state. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
One of the largest concentration camps in Germany. It was full of technology ranging from electric barb wires, watchtowers, and a chain of automatic guns lined up on the outside. The prison guards were extremely racist with anti-semetic views. Most of the earl inmates were political prisoners. -
Reichstag Speech
Rising international tension Hitler declared to the german public that the outbreak of war would end European Jewry. This speech fueled the Nazis to be even more anti-Semitic the calling for boycotts increased 10x more. Not only this happened but the outbreak of the war in 1939 marked the transition in Nazi racial antisemitism toward genocide. The Nazis even tried to justify their actions by using racist arguments and old negative stereostypes. -
Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich chief of the Reich Security Main Office convenes the Wannsee Conference in a villa outside Berlin. The chief presents a plan to have a "Final Solution to the Jews." This was a codename for the physical and deliberate annihilation of the Jews. Later on, Hitler approved this plan of mass genocide. -
D-Day
After the German conquest of France in 1940, the second front in western Europe had been a major aim of Allied strategies during World War II. A deception plan created by the Allies led the germans to believe the attack would fall further north. Even when the Germans were fooled they still contained Allied troops in their expanding beachhead near the town of St. Lo. By mid-august Allied troops had encircled and taken out much of the German army. -
Germany Surrenders
The title is self-explanatory, German forces surrender unconditionally in the West. After heaving fighting from both sides, the Soviet Union and the Allied Powers neared Adolf's command bunker in central Berlin. Soon after on April 30th, 1945, Hitler committed suicide. But was this really the end of his views?
