Holocaust timeline

  • Hitler's rise to power

    Hitler's rise to power
    Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party come to power when Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.
  • Dachau concentration camp opens

    Dachau concentration camp opens
    Dachau concentration camp opened in 1933 for political prisoners and was owned and operated by The Nazis, later it expanded to house all of Nazi Germany's undesirables(mostly jews)
  • Establishment of Nuremberg laws

    Establishment of Nuremberg laws
    In September 1935 the Nuremberg laws were passed which made jews and other ethnic minorities legally different classes from ethnic Germans.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    From the Night of November 9 1938 to the morning of November 10 1938 Mobs of Nazi soldiers and citizens burned, vandalized, and destroyed Jewish owned businesses throughout Nazi Germany in retaliation for the Assassination of a German official by a Jewish man, and out of hate for Jews.
  • Hitlers Reichstag speech

    Hitlers Reichstag speech
    Adolf Hitler gives a speech to the German people that said that war would mean the annihilation of jews in Europe, and started the shift from Ethnic injustice to Genocide
  • First Ghetto established

    First Ghetto established
    Nazi Germany Creates first Ghetto in Piotrków
  • Plans to kill jews

    Plans to kill jews
    At the Wannsee conference in Berlin high ranking SS Official Reinhard Heydrich reveals the plan to begin the extermination of Jews
  • Extermination of Jews begins

    Extermination of Jews begins
    The extermination of jews begins in the Belzec extermination camp and by the end of the year 600000 jews had been killed