holocaust timeline - Austin the boss Ellingson

  • Japan begin takeover of Manchuria

    Japan begin takeover of Manchuria
  • Nazis burn Reichstag building

    Nazis burn Reichstag building
  • Hindenburg is elected President in Germany

    Hindenburg is elected President in Germany
  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
  • First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

  • Jews are banned from the German Labor Front

  • Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.

     Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
  • Nazis occupy the Rhineland

    Nazis occupy the Rhineland
  • Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military

    Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
  • Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.

    Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
  • Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.

    Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
  • jews are banned almost everywhere

    jews are banned almost everywhere
  • 'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich

    'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich
  • Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews

    Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews
  • Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland.

    Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland.
  • Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items

    Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items
  • Soviet troops invade eastern Poland

  • A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed

  • France signs an armistice with Hitler

  • Paris is occupied by the Nazis.

  • Near Riga, a mass shooting of Latvian and German Jews.

  • SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally of 229,052 Jews killed.

  • The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz

  • Greek Jews are ordered into ghettos

  • Jews working in Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz

  • Russian troops reach former Polish border.

  • Himmler's agents secretly propose to the Western Allies to trade Jews for trucks, other commodities or money.

  • Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.