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The beginning
The third Reich soon became a government and which none of the people had freedom and had no basic rights. The Weimar Republic, a German parliamentary democracy founded after World War I, came to an end when the Nazis gained power. The Nazi Party engaged in extensive propaganda to advance its racist purposes. -
Hitler's Third Reich
Hitler abolishes the office of president after President Hindenburg dies and takes over as "Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor." In order to reverse the Treaty of Versailles and unite all German peoples, Hitler re-arms Germany. The military becomes established. -
the laws
Jews were not allowed to join the German military. "Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws were passed; Jews were no longer regarded as German citizens. They were also banned from marrying Aryans and flying the German flag. -
start of concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens. Rome-Berlin Axis is established by Hitler and Mussolini. Opening of Buchenwald concentration camp -
The problems of the Jews
All Jewish-owned property had to be recorded by law inside the Reich. A conference on the issue of Jewish refugees was held at Evian, France. To speed up the process of forced emigration, Adolf Eichmann finds the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna. -
Night of the broken glass
200 synagogues were destroyed, 7,500 Jewish businesses were robbed, and 30,000 male Jews were transported to concentration camps. During the anti-Jewish pogrom known as Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen). Forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands. -
Yellow star
Jews in German-occupied Poland were required to wear a yellow star or arm band. But they had to be 6 year old and older to wear one in western Poland. The word Jew was in the star. -
The marches
Auschwitz is abandoned, and the death march begins. Then death march of Buchenwald prisoners. Then everything ends when Hitler commits suicided with his wife.