Holocaust Timeline

By mspsclass

  • Hitler

    January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.

  • police

    February 22, 1933 - 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.

  • Atmosphere

    February 27, 1933 - Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.

  • Fire

    February 28, 1933 - Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.

  • Women

    March 22, 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.

  • Dictator power

    March 24, 1933 - German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.

  • Buisness

    April 1, 1933 - Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.

  • Nazis

    April 11, 1933 - 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...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."

  • Gestapo

    April 26, 1933 - The Gestapo is born, created by Hermann Göring in the German state of Prussia.

  • Burning of books

    May 10, 1933 - Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.

  • Nazi party

    July 14, 1933 - Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.

  • Nazi pass

    In July - Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary Health Court to have genetic defects.

  • Nazis establish reich chamber

    In September - Nazis establish Reich Chamber of Culture, then exclude Jews from the Arts.

  • nazis prohibit jews

    September 29, 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land

  • Jew cannot be newspaper editors

    October 4, 1933 - Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.

  • Nazis pass a law

    November 24, 1933 - Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.