The Holocaust in the framework of the Interwar period and the WWII

  • George Gluckstein was born

  • Tuvo un hijo llamado Fritz

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties

  • Dachau concentration camp opened

  • Enabling act

  • firsts boycotts of Jewish bussines

  • approval of civil service law

  • Approval of the education law

  • Approval of the sterilization law

  • Approval of the press censorship law

  • Approval of the mandatory military service

  • Adolf Hitler proclaimed Führer

  • Prohibition of Jehovah´s witness organization

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as homosexual

  • approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

  • Annexation of Austria

  • Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women

  • Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women.

  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany

  • Kristallnacht

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia.

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Arression

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or "Operation T-4". It would cause 250,000 deaths

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Germany invaded Western Europe

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliv formed

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

  • Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War Il.

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.

  • Fritz was put in the forced labor service

  • Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews ("Final Solution").

  • Beginning of "Operation Reinhard", name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • Allied forces invaded North Africa

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

  • German defeat at Stalingrad.

  • first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz

  • George and Fritz were arrested

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise

  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces

  • Surrender of Italy

  • George and Fritz were assigned to forced labor crews sent to demolish buildings damaged by air raids

  • Germany occupied Hungary.

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings

  • George resumed his judicial career and served as a chairman of the Jewish community assembly of representatives

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops

  • Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe