Holocaust

Hitler announced Chancellor Of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler is announced Chancellor of Germany

Reichstag Building Burned

Feb 27, 1933

The Reichstag Building was burned by the Nazis to create a crisis-like atmosphere.

Hindenburgh Dies

Aug 2, 1934

Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer

Race Laws against Jews

Sep 15, 1935

The Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews were passed.

Identity Cards

Jul 23, 1938

Jews over the age of 15 are ordered to apply for identity cards from the police. They must show them whenever they are ordered to.

Killing Jews

Jan 1, 1942

The massive killings of Jews begin to take place at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The bodies are buried in mass graves nearby.

Mass Rally Madison Square

Mar 1, 1943

In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to try and pressure the U.S. government into helping the European Jews.

First Concentration Camp at Majdanek

Jun 24, 1944

Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp at Majdanek. Over 360,000 Jews had been murdered there.

Death Marches

Jan 1, 1945

Nazis begin to conduct the death marches of the concentration camps as the Allied Troops advance.

Hitler Commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin after the Allied forces reached Berlin.