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Period: to
Holocaust
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Chancellor
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany. -
First Concentration Camp
First Concentration Camp opened in Dachau. -
Boycotts
Jewish shops and businesses boycotted nationwide. -
"Fuhrer"
Hitler named himself "Fuhrer" over both Government and party. -
NO ARMED FORCES
Jews barred from seving in the German armed forces -
More Laws
Numbering laws enacted -
Another Camp
Buchenwald concentration camp opened -
Deported
First Polish Jews deported from Germany -
Night of The Broken Glass
Kristallnachat following assassination of Von Rath. -
Expelled
Jewish people expelled from German Schools -
Concentration Camp for Woman
Ravensbruck concentration camp for woman established -
Denied
Jewish refuges aboard SS St. Louis denied entry to Cuba and U.S. -
Ghettoization
Ghettoization of Polish Jews -
Star of David
Jews in Poland are forced to wear the Star of David -
Ghetto Established
Lodz Ghetto established and sealed in April 1940 -
Auschwitz
Concentration camp established in Auschwitz -
Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto established and sealed in November of 1940 with 500,000 people in it. -
Registation
Dutch Jews required to register -
"Total Solution"
Authority given to prepare a "total solution" to Jewish problem -
Third Reich
Jews in the Third Reich must wear the Star of David -
Gassing Begins
Gassing opperations begin at Chelmno -
Revolt
Revolt by Auschwitz inmates -
Auschwitz
Soveits liberate Auschwitz -
He's Gone
Hitler commits suicide -
Surrenders
Nazi Germany surrenders; End of World War II in Europe -
Spring
Liberation of Camps
British liberate Bergen-Belsen
Americans liberate Dachau -
Trial Begins
First Major Nurenburg War Crime Trial Begins
