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Holocaust Timeline

By layla.johnson2611

  • TAKEOVER OF POWER, 1933

    TAKEOVER OF POWER, 1933
    In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his appointment as chancellor.

  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS OPEN

    CONCENTRATION CAMPS OPEN
    Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War.

  • NAZI RACE LAWS

    NAZI RACE LAWS
    Among other things, the laws issued in September
    1935 restricted future German citizenship to those
    of “German or kindred blood,” and excluded those
    deemed to be “racially” Jewish or Roma (Gypsy).

  • “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”

    “NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS”
    A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.

  • SEARCH FOR REFUGE

    SEARCH FOR REFUGE
    Jews in Vienna wait in line at a police station to obtain exit visas. Following the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, and the unleashing of a wave of humiliation, terror, and confiscation, many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the country.