Holocaust

Holocaust

  • Beginning of The Holocaust

    The Jews were subject to harsh conditions, things taken away from them, restrictions etc. The start of Genocide to the Jews,
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    The Holocaust

  • Nazi Boycotts

    The Nazi's stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
  • Burning Jewish Books

    The Nazi's started the Burning of Jewish books, or books by Jewish writers in Berlin and throughout Germany.
  • Nazi Party

    The Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany, and Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
  • Prohibition

    Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
  • Concentration camps Law

    Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
  • German Labor Front

    Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
  • Purge

    The Night of Long Knives occurs as Hitler, Göring and Himmler conduct a purge of the Storm Trooper leadership.
  • Hitler becomes leader of Germany

    German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
  • Jews banned from Military

    The Nazi's ban Jews from serving in the military.
  • Jewish Cultural Unions

    The Nazi's force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
  • Start of Concentration Camps

    SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
  • Olympic games begin in Berlin

    Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors and thus temporarily refrain from actions against Jews.
  • Jews are banned from many things

    Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
  • Hitler enters Austria

    Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria.
  • Concentration camp established

    • After the Anschluss, the SS is placed in charge of Jewish affairs in Austria with Adolf Eichmann establishing an Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna. Himmler then establishes Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz.
  • Nazi's occupy Sudetenland

    The Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland.
  • 17,000 Jews arrested

    Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's Land' near the Polish border for several months.
  • Kristallnacht occurs

    Kristallnacht was an event that occured where Nazi's attacked and destroyed all things that belonged to the jews.
  • German Invasion of Poland

    Nazi Germany sent troops to Poland, to initiate WWII
  • Auschwitz Camp Established

    SS authorities establish the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime.
  • Warsaw Ghetto Sealed

    The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over ten feet high, topped with barbed wire.
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japan launches a surprise attack on the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, severely damaging the installation.
  • U.S. Declares War on Japan

    President Roosevelt asks the US Congress to declare war on Japan following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
  • Liberation of Dachau

    US forces liberate the Dachau camp.
  • Liberation of Ravensbrück

    The vanguard of the Soviet Army arrives at the Ravensbrück camp.
  • German Surrender

    German armed forces surrender unconditionally to Allied forces in the west.