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The Nuremburg Race Laws
The Nuremnurg Laws excluded German Jews from Reich Citizenship and prohibited them from marrying a person of German or related blood. These laws didn't define a Jew, it was if they had 3 or 4 Jewish relatives to be a Jew. The Nuremberg Laws even put the Germans who practiced Judaism for years into the Nazis hands. The Nuremberg Race Laws made it extremely difficult for Jews in 1935. -
Buchenwald concentration camp opens
Buchenwald was one of the largest concentraton camps established within the old German borders. This concentration camp was only opened for men. Prisoners were confined in the northern part of the camp, known as the main camp. Electrified barbed-wire fences, watch towers, and automatic machine guns were surrounding the camp. The nazis shot prisoners in stables and hung other prisoners in the crematorium area. -
Munich Agreement
The Munich agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the conuntry's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers. This conference was held in Munich, Germany and some of the major powers of Europe were there, including Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. The purpose of this conference was to discuss the the future of Sudetenland in the hands of Hitler. Today, it is known as a failed act of appeasemnet toward Germany. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht is where the Nazis staged violent pogroms, staged sanctions, and anti-jewish riots against the Jewish communities of Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland. Kristallnacht means "Night of the broken glass." This translation refers to the broken windows and damaged Jewish owned stores. The Nazis burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 people during Kristallnacht. -
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement
The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, or German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was concluded only a few days before the begining of World War II. Hitler wanted this pact so that his armies could invade Poland unopposed by a major power. The two countries agreed not to attack eachother, and not to support any third power might that might attack the other party to the pact. This pact was to last for 10 years, with automatic extension for another 5 years. -
Germans Establish a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
This ghetto was created in 1939 and by 1940 all of the Jews in this area were moved into the ghetto. It was said that creating this ghetto so early was that the city was so damaged and the Germans wanted to make room for polish refugees, along with Jews. This ghetto was held like any other ghetto was. The Jews were to be removed out of their homes and forced into the ghetto. -
Einsatzgruppen shot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort
The Seventh and Ninth Fort were close to the ghetto in that area. What the Germans would do in this case is round up some Jews from the ghetto, they would seperate them into two columns. The right column meant death and the right column ment life. Following this, the Germans would shoot the right column. The Jews thought they were just being moved to another ghetto, not being put into columns for death. The Seventh Fort was known as a symbol of mass murder. -
Newly built gas chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz.
Crematory's I and II were both identical. They consisted of the cremation room, the annex buildings, the underground mortuary 1, the underground mortuary 2, and the underground mortuary 3. The purpose of these crematory's was to get rid of the Jews. The Germans would put the Jews into these crematory's and burn them alive. -
Evacuation of Auschwitz
Between January 17 through the 21, 56,000 prisoners were evacuated from the main camp and several sub camps. There were many Jews who became exhausted or sick and about 9,000 of those prisoners were left behind, including the inmate staff and hospital barracks. Some of the healthy prisoners managed to hide. The hiding prisoners hoped for the Red Army to help them get to safety. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler decided to go into his bunker after remaining to stay in Berlin for the last siege of the war. His shelter contained 18 rooms and had its own water and elecricity. He left rarely and spent his time managing what was left of the German defenses. He married Eva Braun on April 28 1945. Two days later, they both commited suicide together.
