JS Shoah Studies

Hitler's Birth

Apr 20, 1889

Outbreak of WWI

Jul 28, 1914

Adolf Hitler becomes a corporal - The second lowest rank - during the war.

WWI ends - Treaty of Versailles

Jun 29, 1919

Germany is forced to:
- Place extreme limitations on its army, navy, and is not
allowed to have an airforce or tanks.
- Give up its empire and to give up land.
- Pay reparations for the war.
- Accept the blame for starting the war. Hitler's view:
Germany was stabbed in the back by the Jews and the Communists.

Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 8, 1923

Mein Kampf is published

Jul 18, 1925

Adolf Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Reichstag Fire

Feb 27, 1933

Hitler blames the Communists for the blaze.

Opening of Dachau - the first concentration camp

Mar 22, 1933

(This photo was taken after liberation)

Enabling Act

Mar 23, 1933

Night of the Long Knives

Jun 30, 1934

Nüremberg Laws

Sep 15, 1935

Part 1: The Laws for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour Part 2: The Reich Citizenship Law

Remilitarization of the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Nazi Olympics

Aug 1, 1936

(1 - 16 August 1936)

Anschluss

Mar 12, 1938

Evian Conference

Jul 6, 1938

Munich Conference

Sep 29, 1938

German annexation of the Sudentenland

Oct 21, 1938

Kristallnacht - Night of Broken Glass

Nov 9, 1938

9 - 10 November 1938

Assasination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan in Paris

Nov 9, 1938

Kindertransport

Dec 1, 1938

Occupation of Czechoslovakia

Mar 15, 1939

Voyage of the MS St Louis

May 13, 1939

Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Aug 23, 1939

Outbreak of WWII - Hitler's invasion of Poland

Sep 1, 1939

World War II Powerpoint

Beginning of Action T4

Sep 1, 1939

Establishment of the Lodz Ghetto - Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski appointed leader of the Lodz Judenrat

Oct 1, 1940

Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto - Adam Czerniakow appointed leader of the Warsaw Judenrat

Oct 16, 1940

Operation Barbarossa

Jun 22, 1941

Establishment of the Vilna Ghetto - Jacob Gens appointed leader of the Judenrat

Sep 6, 1941

Babi Yar

Sep 29, 1941

Establishment of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Oct 8, 1941

Operation Reinhard begins

Oct 13, 1941

Theresienstadt is established

Nov 24, 1941

First Deportations to Chelmno

Dec 8, 1941

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto liquidation

Jul 22, 1942

Establishment of Treblinka

Jul 23, 1942

Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Apr 19, 1943

Yitzchak Wittenberg commits suicide in front of Gestapo

Jul 16, 1943

German invasion of Hungary

Mar 19, 1944

Liquidation of the Lodz Ghetto

Jul 15, 1944

Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, commit suicide

Apr 30, 1945

End of WWII

May 8, 1945

Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Apr 11, 1961