The Holocaust

By hawkens
  • Hitler named German Chancellor

    Hitler named German Chancellor
    Hitler is chancellor on January 30 1933. This marked a very crucial turning point for Germany. His immediate action was to expand the state police, The Gestapo, and putting Herman Goering in charge of the new security force, composed of Nazis and nothing else.
  • Nazi boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Nazi boycott of Jewish Businesses
    The Nazi boycott began in Germany on April 1, 1933. This was an early action against Jews in Germany by the new National Socialist government. They forced the Jew shop owners to hand over their businesses to the Nazi Party.
  • Hitler becomes Fuhrer

    Hitler becomes Fuhrer
    The summer of 1934 an elderly German President, Paul von Hindenburg had now been awaiting death for a wile. His health had been slowly failing for several months. He dies at 87 on August 2 1934, this gave Hitler and his Nazi party a moment to pick up where Paul had left off, with new laws of his own.
  • Nazi party starts to break the Jewish people

    Nazi party starts to break the Jewish people
    Nazis now ban Jews from serving in the German army. June 26, Nazis pass a law that allows forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on their hereditary diseases. Aug. 6, Nazis force Jews that performers and artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
  • German rules for Jews

    German rules for Jews
    The German government requires all Jews to register assets over $5,000. Then become available to Herman Goring. The Commissioner for the Four Year Plan, is used in the interests of the German economy.
  • Germans invades/compromises with countries

    Germans invades/compromises with countries
    On April ninth Germans occupy Denmark and Southern Norway. Then on May tenth Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. Ten days later the Concentration camp at Auschwitz is established.
  • The Nazis take Jewish lives

    The Nazis take Jewish lives
    January twenty-first through the twenty-sixth anti-Jewish riots in Romanian, hundreds of Jews butchered. On July thirty-first Heinrich appointed by Goring to implement the "Final Solution" In the months of July through August thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the Einzatzgruppen.
  • Germans begin to exterminate Jews

    Germans begin to exterminate Jews
    On Jan. twentieth Germans have a conference to outline a plan to murder Europe's Jews.When may rolls around the extermination of Jews in gas chambers begins. In the winter the Germans deport Jews from Germany, Greece, and Norway to killing centers.
  • The Germans rain begins to die down

    The Germans rain begins to die down
    May fifteenth Nazis begin to deport Jews from Hungary, by June 27,380,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz. D-day invasion at Normandy. July twentieth group of German officers try and fail to assassinate Hitler.
  • The German Terror ends

    The German Terror ends
    January seventeenth evacuation of Auschwitz. Liberation of Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Sachsenhausen, Flossenburg, and Dachau. On April thirtieth Hitler commits suicide.