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Nazis boycott of Jewish businesses
Nazis blocked entrances to some Jewish owned stores. Signs near the soldiers said "Buy only at German shops!" -
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The Gestapo
The secret police of the Nazi force was under control of Heinrich Himmler. -
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Hitler becomes Fuhrer
German President von Hindenburg dies and HItler becomes leader. -
Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses were banned from all civil cervice jobs. They were also arrested throughout Germany. -
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler was appointed the chief of German Police. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust. -
Buchenwald Opens
Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens and holds Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes, the mentally ill and physically-disabled from birth defects, religious and political prisoners, Roma and Sinti, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, homosexuals, and prisoners of war. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, The Night Of Broken Glass, was a massive German attack on Jewish establishments. -
Ghettos
Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses, ghettos. -
Invasion of Poland
Nazis invade Poland, a country with a Jewish population of 3.35 million. This is the largest Jewish population in Europe. -
Jewish Deportation
Germans deport German-Jewish people into their occupied land in Poland. -
Auschwitz Opens
Rudlof Hoss was the kommandant of Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp under Nazi control. -
Warsaw and Krakow Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing 400,000 and the Krakow Ghetto, containging 700,000 Jewish residents was sealed off. -
Approval of Murder Squads
The German Army High Command gave approval to RISHA and Heydrich to have SS murder squads in occupied Poland. -
Star Of David
German Jews above the age of six were forced to wear the yellow Star Of David. -
Gas Chambers Testing
Soviet prisoners of war and Polish prisoners are killed in Nazi test of gas chambers at Auschwitz -
Final Solution
The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's systematic plan during World War II to diberatley annihilate and physically harm the Jewish people, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
Start Of Deportation and Extermination camps
The beginning of deportations was started in conquered countries. The people being deported were taken to Auschwitz. Around this time, Auschwtiz became an extermination camp instead of a concentration camp. Mass murders began with firing squads, gas chambers, and medical experiments, while others died of malnutrition. -
Jews in Germany Sent to Camps
Himmler orders all the Jewish people in Germany to be sent to the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek. -
Ghetto Destruction
The Nazis ordered all of the ghettos in Poland and Soviet Union to be destroyed. Himmler orders all Jews to be evactuated from ghettos and sent to extermination camps. -
Rebellion
Auschwitz prisoners rebel and blow up one crematorium. -
Destruction of Crematories
Himmler orders the destruction of some crematories in Auschwitz to leave no trace of the thousands dead. -
Death Marches
The Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on "death marches" to Germany. -
Surrender
Germany surrenders with the signing of General Alfred Jodl. The war was ended in Europe.
