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Hitler Comes To Power
Hitler is named chancellor of Germany. Later, in 1934, President Paul von Hindenburg dies and Hitler takes control. Hitler refers to himself as "Fuhrer." -
The First Concentration Camp Opens
The first concentration camp, Dachau, opens. This is just the beginning of the many death camps that the Germans will open. -
Nuremberg Race Laws are Passed
Nuremberg Race Laws were Anti-Jewish laws passed with the intent of removing Jewish influence from Aryan society. -
Kristallnacht
Nazis in Germany destroyed synagogues, Jewish homes, schools, businesses, and killed around 100 Jews. Roughly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested taken to concentration camps. Also called "Night of Broken Glass." -
Problems for Jews Begin
The German army occupied western Poland and started to force thousands of Polish Jews from their homes into ghettoes. The confiscated properties were then given to ethnic Germans. Nazi officials selected around 70,000 Germans with mental illnesses or disablities to be gassed to death in the "Euthanasia Program" Hitler seemingly put and end to this in 1941, but in reality Germans still continued in secrecy. -
Germans Establish a Ghetto
The Germans established a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. Jews were forced to live in poverty and starve. -
The Einsatzgruppen
The German Einsatzgruppen gathers up about 34,000 jews and kill them. On November 7th that year, they rounded up 13,000 Jews and did the same. Finally, on November 30th, they shot 10,000 Jews in a ghetto. -
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto were murdered or deported. Around 265,000 were deported to the Treblinka killing center. Several Jewish underground orginizations formed the Jewish Combat Orginization. In the matter of a day Germans managed to break the military resistance for the most part. Individuals and small groups of resistance fighters still fought and hid for about a month. To symbolise victory, the Germans ordered the destruction of the Great Synagogue in the destroyed ghetto. -
Germans Leave the Camps
Germans had to quickly leave death camps like Auschwitz and Stutthof and relocate their prisoners. In a walk called the Death March, Jews had to walk to their new location and many could not handle the walk on the way. Germans were reported to have killed many prisoners who became exausted and fell down. -
The Liberation of Auschwitz
Auschwitz is liberated by Soviet troops. Roughly 7,000 prisoners remained in the camp. -
The End of Hitler
Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
