Holocaust

By mel15

  • Hitler is Appointed Chancellor

    Hitler is Appointed Chancellor
    The Nazis had surpassed all other political parties in the Country by 1932. In January of the following year, President Paul von Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor of Germany since no other leader could secure enough support to rule.

  • Anti-Jewish Boycott

    Anti-Jewish Boycott
    Less than three months after Hitler taking office in Germany, the Nazi leadership launches an economic boycott on Jewish-run companies and skilled Jewish offices.

  • Law Preventing Jews from going to School

    Law Preventing Jews from going to School
    The German government Changes the Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities, which severely restricts the number of Jewish students who can attend public schools

  • Munich Agreement

    Munich Agreement
    Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and France sign the Munich Agreement on September 29 and 30, 1938, which requires Czechoslovakia to hand over its border areas and fortifications to Nazi Germany These territories were occupied by German troops from October 1 until October 10, 1938.

  • Reichstag Speech

    Reichstag Speech
    Adolf Hitler, the Führer and Reich Chancellor, warns the German populace and the rest of the world that the start of a war would mean the extinction of the Jewish people in Europe.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    German forces soon pushed on Warsaw, the capital of Poland, after breaching Polish border barriers. Jewish and non-Jewish refugees in the hundreds of thousands fled the German advance in the hope that the Polish army would be able to stop it. But within a month of the German onslaught, Warsaw succumbed to the Germans after intense shelling and bombing.

  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    The Wannsee Conference is organized by Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), in a villa outside of Berlin. Key figures from the German State and the Nazi Party are shown his plans to coordinate a pan-European "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" during this conference

  • New Directive in Immigrant Visas for Jews

    New Directive in Immigrant Visas for Jews
    Under the current US immigration quota constraints, US President Truman issued an order providing preference to displaced persons for immigrant visas.