Holocaust

Adolf Appointed As Chancellor

Jan 30, 1933

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany Also Dachau concentration camp opens Following several backroom negotiations – which included industrialists, Hindenburg's son, the former chancellor Franz von Papen, and Hitler – Hindenburg acquiesced and on 30 January 1933, he formally appointed Adolf Hitler as Germany's new chancellor. Although he was chancellor, Hitler was not yet an absolute dictator.

Leader and Reich Chancellor

Aug 2, 1934

Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him. Adolf Hitler with the slogan, Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer! lit. One People, one Realm, one Leader In 1933, Hitler was appointed Reichskanzler Chancellor of the Reich by Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg.

Numberg Laws

Sep 15, 1935

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

Versailles Treaty

Mar 7, 1936

Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty . As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers.

Camp

Jul 15, 1937

Buchenwald concentration camp opens Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its allies established more than 44,000 camps and other incarceration sites (including ghettos). Millions of people suffered and died or were killed. Among these sites was the Buchenwald camp near the city of Weimar.

Knight of the broken glass

Sep 10, 1938

Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed 7,500 Jewish shops looted 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps Dachau, Buchenwald Sachsenhausen

Reichstag Speech

Jan 30, 1939

Hitler in Reichstag speech if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung extermination of European Jews Amid rising international tensions Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler tells the German public and the world that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.

Germany invades

May 10, 1940

Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France On 3 September 1939, France declared war on Germany following the German invasion of Poland. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive but by mid-October had withdrawn to their start lines.