Holocaust: Sheridan Schmitt

By schmishe

  • Nazis took power

    Silenced any opposition that included Communists, Socialists, liberals, or anyone who spoke out against the government. The Nazis also turned against Gypsies, Freemasons, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

  • Jews Flee

    Beginning in 1933, thousands of Jews fled Germany each year. So many refugees were emmigrating that countries didn't want any more than the thousands they may already have.

  • Non-Aryans removed from governement

    About three months after Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. This was one of the first actions toward racial purity and the Holocaust.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The law stripped Jews of civil rights and property if they tried to leave Germany. Jews over the age of six had to wear a bright yellow Star of David on clothing.

  • Kristallnacht "crystal night"

    Gangs of Nazi storm troopers attached Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. Shattered glass littered the streets and the Nazis blamed the Jews for destruction and over 20,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

  • "Special Treatment" Centers

    Using these centers, the Nazis targeted those unfit of the "master race" that included homosexuals, mentally retarded, insane, disabled, and incurably ill. They were places for "mercy death". People went thee and never returned.

  • "Final Solution to the Jewish question"

    Jews healthy enough to work went to labor camps to perform slave labor while the rest sent to extermination camps, a genocide.

  • War began

    World War II broke out in Europe. President Roosevelt said he sympathized for the Jews but didn't want to jeopardize America. When German luxury liner the St. Louis attempted to bring Jewish refugees to America, the Coast Guard refused.

  • Death Camps in Poland

    Germans built six camps in Poland, each contained several huge gas chambers where up to 6,000 lives were lost daily.

  • Nuremberg Laws in Denmark

    Nazis began pressuring occupied Denmark to also enforce the Nuremberg Laws against Jews. The Danes resisted and many even wore the Star of David along with the Jews as protest.