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The Holocaust
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Adolf Hitler arises
Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, a nation with a Jewish population of 560,000. -
The Crisis Starts
Nazis burn the Reichstag building to establish Hilter's power, creating a new atmosphere full or crisis. -
Opening of Concentration camps
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany and Sachsenhausen near Berlin. -
Boycott of jewish privileges
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses and civil rights. -
The Nuremberg law
Nazis issue a Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan. -
Nazi declared a legal party
Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany. Also, the Nazis pass a Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship. -
The poor became poorer
Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps. -
More rights taken away
Jews are banned from recieving national health insurance. -
Hitler is Führer.
German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer. -
More rights taken away
Nazis ban the Jews from serving in the military. -
Nuremberg law gets approved
Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed. -
Olympic Games
Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors. -
more rights taken away
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. -
Synagogue destruction
Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg. -
Jews' taking the blame
Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht and destroying synagogues. -
Jewish students expelled
Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools. -
Seizing Czechoslovakia
Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia (Jewish pop. 350,000). -
Invading Poland
Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning of SS activity in Poland. -
War against Germany
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. -
Labour in concentration camps
Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60. -
Auschwitz opens
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp. -
Invasions to capture jews
Nazis invade France (Jewish pop. 350,000), Belgium (Jewish pop. 65,000), Holland (Jewish pop. 140,000), and Luxembourg (Jewish pop. 3,500). -
Nazis obtain allies
Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi Allies. -
Invasion of russia
Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million). -
Testing gas on jews
The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz -
USA and Germany at war
Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany using 90% of their troops to take down Hitler. -
Gad chamber killing many Jews
Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. -
1 million Jews killed
The New York Times reports via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by Nazis. -
burning of dead Jews
Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water. -
Mass murder of Jews
Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted. -
Another million killed
The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces. -
Germans surrender
Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. -
Jews escape
Massive escape from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods. Of those 300, fifty survived. -
Hungary taken by Nazis
Nazis occupy Hungary (Jewish pop. 725,000). Eichmann arrives with Gestapo "Special Section Commandos." -
extermination of more Jews
Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed. -
Death walk of Jews
Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border. -
Jews freed
Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews. -
russians liberate Auschwitz
Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there. -
Hitler suicides
Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. -
Jews freed
Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps. -
Hermann Göring captured
Hermann Göring captured by members of U.S. 7th Army. -
Holocaust ends with a tribunal
Opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
