the holocaust

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    the holocaust

    1933-1938 Adolf Hitler as German chancellor January30, 1933 the Nazi state quickly became a regime in which citizens had no guaranteed basic rights. the German parliamentary democracy established after World War I. The Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic. the regime established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others said it was dangerous.
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    more of 1933

    Adolf Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Nazis and their allies transformed Germany from a multi-party republic into a one-party dictatorship. Nazi dictatorship implemented radical racial, political, and social policies. German jews felt effects of legislation that made then from citizens to outcast,
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    1939-1941

    On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany unleashed World War II by invading Poland. the war radicalized Nazi policies, leading to brutal occupations of conquered territory. German authorities established ghettos for jews. in june 1941 german troops invaded the soviet union and made a racial war and it lead to the mass murder or soviet jews and soviet prisoners of war.
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    1942

    in early 1942 Nazi Germany stood at the high of his power. Germany and its allies controlled most of Europe and even parts of North Africa. The SS established special killing centers with large gas chambers, expanding the “Final Solution,” the mass murder of European Jews. even tho the war turned against germany. the nazi leadership continued its murderous polices
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    1945

    may 1945 the war ended the nazis and their allies killed about 6 million jews. Millions more people had suffered grievous oppression or death under Nazi tyranny. German soldiers burn residential buildings to the ground, one by one, during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.