Holocaust Timeline

  • President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany

  • SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich

    SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
  • Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Shops And Businesses In Germany

    Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Shops And Businesses In Germany
  • Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service

  • Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases

  • Germany introduces military conscription

  • Nuremberg Race Laws

    Nuremberg Race Laws
  • German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland

  • German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland

  • Summer Olympics begin in Berlin

    Summer Olympics begin in Berlin
  • Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss

  • Munich Agreement

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
  • The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement

    Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement
  • Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe

  • Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland

  • Battle of Britain begins

  • Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno

    Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno
  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day
  • Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center

  • Battle of Kursk

    Battle of Kursk
  • Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary

  • Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland

  • Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland

  • Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide

    Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
  • Germany Surrenders To The Soviets