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Holocaust Timeine
The Holocaust, a time we all know, but how much do we know about it. In this timeline you will learn some facts and events that happened and we are going to touch up on some things we might already know. -
Hitler Campaign Speech
In July the Nazi party won 230 seats in German parliamentary elections becoming the largest party represented. Hitler used strong propaganda to help him become well known throughout Germany. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
On January of 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. All was well at the beginning of this happening but soon after he took advantage of his new job and all of the German citizens lost all of their basic rights and Germany was under total control of Hitler. -
Reichstag Fire Decree
The day after the German Parliament building burned down, President Hindenburg issues the decree for the -
Establishment of Dachau Camp
Outside the town of Dachau, Germany, the SS establishes its first concentration camp to incarcerate political opponents. The number of prisoners incarcerated in Dachau during the years exceeded 188,000. -
Rohm Affair
Hitler, now being the new leader, commands a purge of the leader of the Nazi Party. Hitler would choose to do this because he wanted to become president he then directs his SS to murder the chief of staff Ernst Röhm. His team fulfills with that task but does a little more and kills off more of his people. The assassinations of June 30- July 2 will later become known as “The Röhm Affair” or “The Night of The Long Knives.” -
Hitler Abolishes the Office of President
Hitler first abolishes the office of President and then names himself Fuhrer of the German Reich all while he still has the position of Chancellor. -
Munich Agreement
September 29 and 30 Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement,which meant that Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses to Nazi Germany. Soon after the German troops occupy these regions between October 1 and 10, 1938. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi party officials and the Hitler Youth Group all set out to destroy and ruin the lives of Jews. They set out on the streets of the Jewish and burned down many synagogues and ransacked about 7,000 Jewish owned buildings. about 100 Jewish residents in Germany lost their lives and the ones that survived were either moved to concentration camps or escaped to a place where they could be free.
