Holocaust

The Holocaust

By scott1217

  • The SS opens Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps

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    The Beginning to End

  • German parliement passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers

  • Nazis issue a decree defining non-aryans, especially targeting Jews

  • Jews prohibited from getting legal qualifications

  • Hitler becomes the Fuher

    Hitler becomes the Fuher

  • HItler receives 90% vote approving his new powers

  • Nuremberg race laws against Jews decreed

  • German Gestapo placed above the law

  • Heinrich Himmler is appointed as head of German police

    Heinrich Himmler is appointed as head of German police

  • Jews ridiculed by eternal Jew exhibition

  • Nazi troops enter Austria

  • Himmler establishes Mauthausen camp

    Himmler establishes Mauthausen camp

  • Synagog burned in Nuremberg

    Synagog burned in Nuremberg

  • Nazi troops arrest and force 17 000 jews back to poland

  • Hitler threatens jews during reichstag speech

  • Nazi troops sieze Czechoslovakia

  • Nazis invade Poland jewish population of 3.35 million

  • France and Great Britain declare war on Germany

  • Soviet troops invade eastern Poland

  • Evacuation of Jews from Vienna

  • Auschwitz near Krakow is chosen for the site of the new camp

    Auschwitz near Krakow is chosen for the site of the new camp

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

  • Rudolf Hoss appointed as kommandant at Auschwitz

    Rudolf Hoss appointed as kommandant at Auschwitz

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Holland and Luxemberg

  • Nazis invade Romania

  • Himmler makes his first visit to Auschwitz ordering a massive expansion

  • Nazis occupy Bulgaria

  • German Jews forced into labor

  • SS murder squads sent to Poland

  • First gassing victims included 5000 gypsies

  • Mass killing of Jews at Auschwitz begins

    Mass killing of Jews at Auschwitz begins

  • Deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz

  • Deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz

    Deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz

  • First trainloads of Jews arrive at Auschwitz

  • Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational

  • Second gas chamber is formed at Auschwitz

  • Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz

    Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz

  • Deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz

  • Deportation of Croatian Jews to Auschwitz

  • All Jews in Germany ordered to be sent to Auschwitz

  • Experiments on women at Birkenau begin

    Experiments on women at Birkenau begin

  • All gypsies are ordered to be exterminated

  • Gas chambers IV, V are built at Auschwitz

  • Hoss returns to Auschwitz to oversee extermination of hungarian Jews

  • Nazis declare Berlin cleansed of Jews

  • Exterminations cease in Treblinka, estimated deaths at 870 000

  • Operation harvest festival carried out, 42 000 jews killed

  • First transport of Jews from Vienna arrive at Auschwitz

  • Russian troops liberate the Majdanek extermination camp

  • Last time the gas chambers at Auschwitz are used

    Last time the gas chambers at Auschwitz are used

  • Nazis evacuate 66 000 from Auschwitz

  • Russian troops liberate Auschwitz

    Russian troops liberate Auschwitz

  • 40 000 prisoners freed by the British at Bergen-Belsen

  • American troops free 30 000 prisoners at various camps

    American troops free 30 000 prisoners at various camps

  • Twenty one former SS leaders go on trial at Nuremberg

    Twenty one former SS leaders go on trial at Nuremberg