The Holocaust

By man318

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

    President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
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  • Nuremberg Laws

    Jewish people were excluded from public life, when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans.

  • kristallnacht

    Nazis pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a ten-year nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939, in which each signatory promised not to attack the other.

  • Invasion of Poland

    Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

    Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot jews at the seventh forth

    Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.

  • The u.s declares war

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.

  • mass deportation of jews towards Chelmno

    Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

  • Battle of Kursk

  • D-Day

    Allied forces invade Normandy, France.

  • Liberation of Paris.

  • Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets.