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Appointment as Chancellor
Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament following his appointment as chancellor. -
Citizens to outcast
The Nazis initiated a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses across Germany -
Nuremberg laws
The Nazis create Nuremberg laws that states, "These laws institutionalized many of the racial theories underpinning Nazi ideology and provided the legal framework for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. The Nuremberg Race Laws did not identify a “Jew” as someone with particular religious convictions but instead as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents." -
Hitler Youth/ League of German girls
According to The United States Holocaust Museum, ''The Hitler Youth and League of German Girls were part of the Nazi Party’s plan to entrench Nazi ideology in the German people. The Nazi Party viewed children as the foundation of a new world, future party members and soldiers essential to the survival and health of the Volksgemeinschaft. Children had to be both racially conscious and physically fit in order to build a new future for Germany and the Aryan people." It became an actual law in 1936. -
Night of broken glass
The Nazis led mobs to attack jewish communities all over Germany, Austria, and Czechslovakia. People were raped/assaulted, killed on this night, and synagogues were burned. -
St.Louis
A passenger ship carried 937 passenger, most of which were jews, sailed from Hamburg to Cuba seeking shelter, had their landing certficates revoked and had no choice but to go back to Nazi Germany. -
War
Following conquest of Poland by German miltary begun in September 1939 that started war on all of Europe. -
Operation
"According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, "The Chelmno killing center begins operation. The Nazis later establish five other such camps: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz complex), and Majdanek. Victims at Chelmno are killed in gas vans (hermetically sealed trucks with engine exhaust diverted to the interior compartments). The Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka camps use carbon monoxide gas generated by stationary engines attached to gas chambers." -
Final Solution
At the Wannese conferance, they discuss and coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution." At Wannsee, the SS estimates that the "Final Solution" will involve 11 million European Jews, including those from non-occupied countries such as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and Great Britain. Between the fall of 1941 and the fall of 1944, the German railways transport millions of people to their deaths in killing centers in occupied Poland. -
Liberation
"Soviet soldiers were the first to liberate concentration camp prisoners in the final stages of the war. On July 23, 1944, they entered the Majdanek camp in Poland, and later overran several other killing centers. On January 27, 1945, they entered Auschwitz and there found hundreds of sick and exhausted prisoners. The Germans had been forced to leave these prisoners behind in their hasty retreat from the camp." Later Allied soldiers would also free prisoners from camps.
