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1st Phase: Planning propaganda: 1933-1939
-Isolate German Jews from the rest of the population
- Start measures sterilizing, isolating and even to start killing
-Germany rebuilds military in violation of the Treaty of Versailles
-Nazi government prepares the German public for war -
2nd Phase: Expansion and violence: September 1939 - June 2947
-WWII starts with German invasion of Poland
-Nazi expands to Poland into Western Europe, the Netherlands, Belgium, and also Norway and Denmark
- Germany invades the Soviet Union -
3rd Phase: Dedication to Mass Killing 1941 - 1944
-Soviets prisoners of war, Jews of Eastern Europe, Western, Southern Europe were sent to Auschwitz to be killed.
-Hitler and his advisors decide to annihilate all of the Jews in Europe
--Six killing centers were established, where millions of Jews, Sinti and Roma, and other groups were murdered in gas. -
4rd Phase: Death Marches 1945 - May 1945
-Liberation of Auschwitz
-Killing centers and camps were closed or liberate the prisoners
-Prisoners of camps were forced to march from eastern Europe toward Germany
