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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Hitler won 36% of the presidential vote. In order to appease the 36%, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor. -
Nuremberg Laws
In order to "scientifically" distinguish Jews from German citizens, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. These laws showed the difference in between German and Jewish blood types. These laws also took away rights from Jewish citizens. -
Kristallnacht ("Night of the Broken Glass")
After a German soldier was killed by a Jewish male for harassing his parents, Hitler and the Nazi regime burned synagogues, ruined Jewish-owned companies, and killed Jews (most of them were sent to concentration camps) all across the greater Germany. -
German Invasion Begins the War
After invading Poland and large regions of Europe, World War II had commenced. Hitler had controlled most of Europe by the time Allied forces arrived. -
Mobile Killing Squads
Jews, Romas, and Communist government officials were killed in large graves to show off to the German Army, German Labor Service, and the German Youth. This took place in the Soviet Union, where they could not place concentration and death camps. -
Deportations
Jewish people (in Poland) were deported in cramped cattle cars. They were sent to death camps along the rail lines in Poland, but many of them never made the trip due to limited space and freezing temperatures. -
Death Marches
As Allied forces began to move into Europe through the East and West, the Nazi regime began to take any living Jews further into Germany by death marches. If they weren't able to travel, then they would be killed. -
End of WWII by Allied Victory & Nuremberg Trials
After 12 years of gruesome genocide, the Allied forces had won WWII. Some American officers got to view the bodies of those killed by death marches and concentration camps. Those that were apart of the Nazi regime were put on trial and were convicted of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracies.
