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Hitler appointed chancellor
Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor. -
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The Holocaust
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Jews had a chance to leave
hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany did, while those who remained lived in a constant state of uncertainty and fear. -
First concentration camp opened
Opened in Dachau near munich, the first prisoner held there were communists. -
More concentration camps built
Opened in Germany, each held near 27,000 prisoners in what they called "protective custody". -
Nuremburg Laws
Hitler began to restrict the Jews with legislation and terror, which entailed burning books written by Jews, removing Jews from their professions and public schools, confiscating their businesses and property and excluding them from public events. -
Kristallnacht
Means night of broken glass, German synagogues were burned and windows in jewish shops were smashed. 100 jews were killed and over 1,000 arrested -
Germany
The German army occupied the western half of Poland. German police soon forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews from their homes and into ghettoes. -
WWII began
3.5 million jews lived in poland. They were not allowed outside in winter after 8pm and 9pm in the summer. -
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Euthanasia Program
Nazi officials selected around 70,000 Germans institutionalized for mental illness or disabilities to be gassed to death in the "Euthanasia Program". -
Euthanaisa Program ended
Hitler put an end to the program due to the protesting of prominent German religious leaders, but he contined killing the disabled in secrecy. -
Yellow stars
Every person under the german law considered a Jew were forced to wear yellow stars. Making them open targets to be killed or arrested. -
More Ghettos
German generals started raiding concentration camps for people who were veiwed as the least useful, the sick, old and weak and the very young. -
hitler declared war on the U.S.
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The Final Solution
Hitler made the final solution planning on killing all 11 million Jewish people in Europe. -
Mass killings
The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec and the 5 more mass killing centers were built at camps in Poland. -
Gypsies
Nazies ordered all gypsies to be arrested and sent to extermination camps. -
D-Day
It was the beginning of the end of the war for Germany, as the Allies were making a come back, but Hitler had large portions of jews being killed in mass killing centers, 12,000 jews were dying everyday. -
Hiding the evidence
Himmler ordered the crematories at Auschwitz dismantled, demolished and buried to destroy the evidence. Pits filled with human ash were covered and planted with grass. -
Death Marches
In an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners german forces forced the prisoners to march. -
WWII Ended
Germany surrendered after Hilter killed himself. Around 6 million Jews were killed and 1.5 million of the killed were children.
