Holocaust Timeline

The Nazis Overpowered Germany

Jan 30, 1933

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Nuremberg Race Laws

Sep 15, 1935

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World War 2 begins

Sep 1, 1939

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Nazis invade Denmark, Poland, France, Belgium, Holland, and Lexumbourge

Apr 9, 1940

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Einsatzgruppen shot 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar

Sep 28, 1941

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Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in Tuchinki

Nov 7, 1941

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Einsatzgruppen shot 10,000 Jews in the Riga ghetto

Nov 30, 1941

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Nazi Germany Declares War on The United States

Dec 11, 1941

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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno Killing Center

Jan 16, 1942

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Rescue of Jews in Denmark

Oct 1, 1943

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Germans forces occupy Hungary

Mar 19, 1944

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Germans deport 440,000 Jews from Hungary

May 15, 1944

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Death march of 60,000 prisoners from Auschwitz in Southern Poland

Jan 18, 1945

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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz

Jan 27, 1945

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Adolf Hitler commits suicide

Apr 30, 1945

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