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April 7th 1933
Hitler orders all "non-Aryans" to be removed from goverment jobs. This order was one of the first moves in a campaign for racial purity that eventually led to the Holocaust. -
1935
Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property. To make it easier to identifiy them Jews had to wear a bright yellow Star of David on their clothing. -
Kristallnacht
This date became know as Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. -
The St. Louis
More than half of the passengers of this ship were later killed in the holocaust. -
Final Solution
By 1939 only about a quarter million Jews remained in Germany. But other nations that Hitler occupied had millions more.
obsessed with a desire to rid Europe of its Jews, Hitler imposed what he called the "Final Solution" to kill the entire population. -
Final Stage
A meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. To mass slaughter and starvation they would add a third method by poison gas.
