Nazi Holocaust

Hitler appointed Chancellor or Germany

Jan 30, 1933

After parliamentary elections there were backroom intrigues and Hitler is appointed Chancellor.

Nazi's burn Reichstag's building

Feb 27, 1933

This created a crisis atmosphere.

Hitler is granted Emergency Powers

Feb 28, 1933

As a result of the fire Hitler has Enabling Acts

Hitler becomes Dictator

Aug 19, 1934

Hitler abolishes the office of president

Nuremberg Race Laws

Sep 15, 1935

The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 - immediate and concrete segregation.

Buchenwald Concentration Camps Open

Jul 15, 1937

Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.

Anti-Jewish Laws in Hungary

May 29, 1938

Hungary adopts anti-Jewish laws and measures.

Munich Agreement

Sep 30, 1938

settlement by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that allowed Germany invasion of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.

Germany invades Poland

Sep 1, 1939

Hitler want to regain land from Poland and WW2 begins, he used the blitzkreig stratagy

Final Solution

Jan 20, 1942

After racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, the Nazi party rises to power, boycotts, which all wanted to remove the Jews from German society. After World War II, anti-Jewish policy evolved into a plan to focus and eventually annihilate Jews in Europe.