Holocaust

By jeremiah.stanford576@students.cmcss.net

  • January 30, 1933

    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.

  • February 22, 1933

    40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.

  • February 27, 1933

    Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.

  • February 28, 1933

    Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.

  • March 22, 1933

    Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.

  • March 24, 1933

    German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.

  • January 24, 1934

    Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.

  • May 17, 1934

    Jews not allowed national health insurance.

  • June 30, 1934

    The Night of Long Knives occurs as Hitler, Göring and Himmler conduct a purge of the SA (storm trooper) leadership.

  • May 21, 1935

    Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

  • June 26, 1935

    Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases

  • February 10, 1936

    The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

  • March 7, 1936

    Nazis occupy the Rhineland.

  • In January 1937

    Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.

  • November 8, 1937

    'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.

  • March 12/13, 1938

    Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria.

  • April 22, 1938

    Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.

  • January 24, 1939

    SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up the emigration of Jews.