Holocaust Timeline

By yellowgizmo

  • Persecution Begins

    Persecution Begins
    After Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from goverment jobs.

  • The Condemned

    The Condemned
    The Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents-- communists, socialist, liberals abd abyone else who spoke out against the goverment. Once the Nazis had eliminted these enemies, they turned agaibs other groups in Germany; gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah's witnesses.

  • Star of David

    Star of David
    Numberg law stripped Jews of their German citizen-ship, jobs and property. To make it easier for the Nazis to identify them, jews had to wear bright yellow star of David attatched to their clothing.

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    -10 Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagouges across Germany.

  • St.Louis

    St.Louis
    Official indifference to the plight of Germanys Jews was in evidence in the case of the ship, St. Louis. The Coast Gaurd followed them to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. More than half of the passengers were killed in the Holocaust.

  • the final solution

    the final solution
    Only a quarted million Jews remained in Germany. But other nations that Hitler occuied had millions more. Obsessed with the desire to rid Europe of its Jews, Hitler imposed what he called the "Final Solution"-- Apolicy of genocide. He targeted Gypsies, freemasons, Jehovah's Witness, also other Germans who they found unfit to be part of teh "Master Race." Concentration camps or labor camps.

  • Death Camps

    Death Camps
    The Germans built six death camps in Polans. The first, Chelmno, began operating in 1941-- before the meeting at Wannsee. When prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, the largest of the death camps, they had to parade by several SS doctors. the doctors seperated the strong from the weak and the weak were killed.

  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage
    The final solution reached its final stage. At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitlers top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. to mass murder and starvation they also added murder by poisoness gas.