Matthew's Holocaust Timeline

  • Treaty Of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
  • Beer hall putsch

    Hitler attempts to overthrow the german goverment The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, and, in German, as the Hitler putsch or Hitler-Ludendorff-Putsch, was a failed coup attempt by the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.
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    Germany has rebublic govement

    Germany has a republic style goverment
  • Holocaust

    The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews
  • Hitler is named chancellor

  • Gives power to hitler

    Hitler is allowed to get rid of his rivals
  • First Concentration Camps Set Up

    Early on, the camps were for imprisonment and hard labor, not for killing.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Natzis needed a way to identify jews so they could discriminate them
  • Appeasement

    German army moves into Austria
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht, also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and November pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.
  • Ghettos

    Nazis rounded up millions of jews
  • Euthanasia Program Begins

    Systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Nazi leaders aprove the final solution.
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    einsatzgruppen

    A Group of nazis killing civiians
  • War saw ghetto uprising

    Residents smuggled weapons in. uprising lasted for about a month SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended.
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    Prisoners fought back in death camps

    After stealing weapons from guards, prisoners tried to escape. Most were killed nut a few dozen made it out and survived the war.Members pf the sonderkommando working in the crematorium fought SS guards killing over 70 but all 250 as well as 200 of them were killed in response.
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    Death marches

    Allies advancing toward death camps. Nazis evacuate prisoners, march them into Germany to avoid capture brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way
  • Germany surenders

    Hitler commits suicide rather than face capture by the soviet red army
  • Liberation's of concentration camps

    As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners.
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    Nuremberg trials

    International community put a number of Germans on trial for war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity