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Holocaust Timeline

  • Hitler Becomes The Chancellor

    Hitler Becomes The Chancellor
    The Nazis came to power in 1933. They believed that Germans were the superior race. They claimed that Jews were inferior and were a threat.
  • Opening Of The First Concentration Camp(Dachua)

    Opening Of The First Concentration Camp(Dachua)
    Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, followed by many other concentration camps later.
  • Book Burning

    Book Burning
    Books deemed "un-German" are publicly burned throughout Germany.
  • Hitler Becomes The Absolute Leader Of Germany

    Hitler Becomes The Absolute Leader Of Germany
    Hitler becomes the absolute dictator of germany allowing him to force his ideas.
  • The Nuremburg Race Laws

    The Nuremburg Race Laws
    Deprived Jews of their rights of citizenship. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans.
  • Jews Are Banned from Many Professional Occupations

    Jews Are Banned from Many Professional Occupations
    Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
  • Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life

    Exclusion of Jews from German Economic Life
    A new German decree closes all Jewish-owned businesses.
  • Reichstag Speech

    Reichstag Speech
    Hitler declares that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry.
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz
    Largest concentration camp in germany is made.
  • Operation Reinhard

    Operation Reinhard
    The plan to annihilate Jews in occupied Poland will lead to the murder of some 1.7 million innocent people.
  • Gas Used At Chelmno

    Gas Used At Chelmno
    Chelmo was first stationary facility where poison gas was used for mass murder.
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide
    Hitler kills himself and the war is over.
  • Nuremberg Trial Ends

    Nuremberg Trial Ends
    Verdicts delivered for major Nazi German leaders tried by the IMT.