Holocaust timeline

  • Event 1 1933

    Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany
    His plan is set in motion
    Reichstag ( German parliament burned down)
    First concentration camp opened
    Passing acts which gave the German cabinet, mostly chancellor power
  • 1933

    Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany
    His plan begins
    Reichstag, German Parliament) is burned down
    First concentration camp is opened
    Passing acts, which gave the German cabinet, (mostly chancellor) lots of power
  • 1934

    Rohm Affair ( Night of Long Knives), orders purge of top power of Nazi Party
    President dies, and Hitler swoops in an becomes President/ dictator of Germany
    SS chief checks out concertation camps, and decided to create Inspectorate of Concertation Camps, which takes of and centralizes concentration camps.
  • 1935-1936

    Nazi's ban all Jehovah's Witnesses Organizations due to their refusal to pledge loyalty to Germans as it went against their religion
    Revises criminal code
    Establishes race laws which was directed mostly towards jews as if they were considered one, the are no longer apart of Germany & more. Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens
    The Olympics held in Germany- Nazi Propaganda
  • 1937-1938

    Buchenwald camp opens
    Plans to murder Jewish prisoners
    Nazi Propaganda exhibition opens
    Establishes higher SS Himmler's reginal representative
    Evian conference from 32 countries discuss German- Jewish refugees trying to flee from Nazi Germany-
    United states and others refuse to ease of their immigration restrictions
    Kristallnacht ( Night of Broken Glass) anti- Jewish program where over 1,400 synagogues destroyed and 7,500 shops looted and many jews sent to concentration camps.
  • 1939-1940

    Reichstag Speech
    US introduces bill to refuge children- bill dies in 1939
    Louis set sail with Jews trying to escape from Nazi Germany- denied passage
    First Polish ghetto
    Lodz Ghetto
    Italy declares war or Britain and France-- WWII begins
  • 1941-1942

    Anti-Jewish Riots- Jews murdered
    Commissar Order- officials in Soviet Communist Party spread patriotic communist pro-communist propaganda
    Mass shootings
    Nazi Germany plans to execute 2 mil Jews
    Operation Reinhard- Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka ( killing centers)
    Final solution- murder begins at Sobibor
    Ghettos
    Deportation killing
    Allied Nations stated Germans Authorities engaging in mass murders would " not escape retribution".
  • 1943-1944

    Germany had a bad defeat which stringed on losses at Stalingrad- turning point
    Many uprisings, in ghettos- jews tried to resist
    Treblinka killings begin- then Sobibor
    Us President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates War Refugee Board-
    Chelmo opened and restaffed to kill more Jews kill Lodz
    Liquidation of Lodz began afterwards
    Heinrich Himmler commands the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers as well as crematoria to get rid of any signs of the killings
  • The End of The Holocaust

    Lodz shuts down- Death Marchs and Liberation
    Hitler commits suicide so he could evade being captured by Soviet Union
    Germany surrenders
    Holocaust refugees/ survivors place in displacement camps
    WWII comes to an end after the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
    US President Truman gives a preference for survives for immigration, however the process it's self was still difficult and continued to be so years after.