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Holocaust by Sara Wilson

  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Leader of the Nazi Party
    July 29th, 1921, Hitler becomes the leader of the Nazi party. While Hitler was leader the Nazi party grew. After being release from prison where he served 8 months, he reestablished the party to seize power by force in Germany.
  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor
    January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor giving him and the Nazi party partial control of the state of Germany. This allows him to have some say in laws and other things that happen politically in German yet he is not the absolute leader yet.
  • Laws Limit Jews to Attend Public Schools

    Laws Limit Jews to Attend Public Schools
    April 25th, 1933, There became discrimination laws put in place for overcrowding in schools. These laws limit the amount of Jewish students going to public schools.
  • Hitler Becomes President of Germany

    Hitler Becomes President of Germany
    August 2nd, 1934, Hitler becomes the president of Germany after the death of president Von Hindenburg. In August 19th, 1934, he becomes absolute dictator allowing him to make choices that others must obey.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    September 1st, 1939, Nazis and Germany in general invaded Poland. Causing the start of World War 2 in Europe. The Germans broke through defenses along the border and they advanced to the Polish capital. Warsaw surrendered to the Germans within a month of the German attack.
  • Germans Turned on Their Allies

    Germans Turned on Their Allies
    On June 22nd, 1941, Germany turned on their allies, The Soviet Union. The Germans carried out mass shootings on Soviet lands. They had also launched a surprise attack on the Soviets, code named Operation Barbarossa.
  • Death March From Auschwitz

    Death March From Auschwitz
    January 17th, 1945, While Soviet unions started approaching Auschwitz, Germans began the final evacuation of Jews at Auschwitz. They forced the prisoners to march west from Auschwitz.
  • Surrender of German and Hungarian Units

    Surrender of German and Hungarian Units
    February 13th, 1945, German and Hungarian troops surrender, and Soviet troop accept the Germans surrendering. The soviet union will then force the rest of the Germans out of the western Hungary.