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Hitler Comes to Power
Hitler was a speaker who attracted a bunch of Germans who were ready for a change. He promised a better life and a new Germany. The Nazis appealed to unemployed, young people, and the lower middle class. The Nazi party rose to power quickly. In elections of 1924 before the economic depression the Nazis were unknown and they won only 3% of the votes. By 1932 elections the Nazi's won 33% of the votes. Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933. -
Book Burning
Univerity students burn about 25,00 non-German books in Berlin's Opera Square. The students wanted to purify German literature frrom foreign, jewish and other immoral influences. -
Central Organization Of German Jews is Established
German Jews create this organization to better represent their intrests through a unified response to esculation of Nazi persecution. -
Editors Law
Editors Law is established and forbids non-Ayrans to work in journalism. -
Rohm Affair
Hitler directs the SS to kill the SA Chief of Staff Ernst Rohm and his top commanders. They also kill several other people who are critics of the Nazi regime. The German parliment declared these killings legal based on false accusations that Rohm and his commanders were planning to overthrow the government. -
Von Hindenburg Dies
Von Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes president with the support of armed forces. He then proceeds to declare himself Fuhrer of the German Reich along with his position as Chancellor. He is now the dictator of Germany with no legal or constitutional restraints to his power. -
Evian Conference
A conference involving 32 countries to discuss Jewish Refugees. The United States and most other countries refused to ease their immigration restrictions. -
Law on Alteration of Family and Personal Names
German Jews with Non-jew origin names had to add "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women to their names. -
German Jews Passports Declared Invalid
The Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports that belong to Jews until they surrender their old passports and get a red J stamped onto them. When they have the red J on their passport, it is then valid. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi Party officials and Hitler Youth carry out violent anti-jew pogroms. They destroy hundreds of synagogues and looted 7,000 Jewish owned businesses and commercial establishments. Almost 100 Jewish residents died from the violence. -
Exclusion of Jews
German goverment issues a decree on the Elimination of the Jews from Economic Life. Jewish people are now forbidden from selling goods or services of any kind. -
First Kindertransport Arrives in Great Britain
Rescue efforts organized by Jewish communal groups in Germany and Austria. Jewish parents would send their children to Great Britain to save them from being persecuted. The first Kindertransport (Children Transport) arrived in Harwich, Great Britain bringing about 200 children from a Jewish orphanage in Berlin which was destroyed by the Kristallnatch pogrom. 9,000-10,000 children were rescued but were most likely never to see their parents again. -
Auschwitz Camp
The Auschwitz Camp was the largest concentration camp established by the Nazi Regime. It had three main camps which all incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of the camps functioned as a killing center. -
Star of David
Reinhard Heydrich decrees jews ages 6-up are required to wear a yellow Star of David with Jew printed on the inside on their outer clothing while in public at all times. -
Theresienstadt Camp-Ghetto
Theresienstad was located in the garrison town of Terezin in the German-controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Theresienstad was a "settlement" and concentration camp that was a unique facility and served as important propaganda for the Germans.
