The Holocaust - Megan

Presidential election under Weimar Republic in Germany gives 30.1 percent of the vote to Adolf Hitler

Mar 31, 1932

German national elections for delegates to the Reichstag (Parliament) result in Nazis attaining 230 seats or 38 percent

Jul 31, 1932

Adolf Hitler appointed Chancelor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Boycott of jewish buisnesses

Apr 1, 1933

German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad

Jan 1, 1934

Hitler proclaims himself Leader and Reich Chancellor

Aug 2, 1934

First major wave of arrests of homosexuals occurs throughout Germany, continuing into November

Oct 1, 1934

Jews baarred from serving in the german armed forces

May 31, 1935

Germany defines a "Jew"

Nov 15, 1935

Jewish doctors barred from practicing in german institutions

Mar 3, 1936

Germans march into Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Buchenwald concentration camp opens

Jul 15, 1937

Jews can obtain passports for travel outside of Germany only in special cases

Nov 16, 1937

Flossenburge consemtration camp opens

May 1, 1938

All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools

Nov 15, 1938

Ravensbruck concentration camp opens

May 18, 1939

Begining of WWII

Sep 1, 1939

Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway

Apr 9, 1940

Breendonck concentration camp opens in Belgium

Sep 20, 1940

German authorities begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto

Feb 1, 1941

Germany invades the Soviet Union

Jun 22, 1941

Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp Summer Deportation

Jul 22, 1942

All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz

Oct 4, 1942

16 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps

Apr 19, 1943

The Nazis order all of the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union destroyed

Jun 1, 1943

Germany occupies hungry

Mar 19, 1944

Group of German Officers try to assassinate Hitler

Jul 20, 1944

Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.

Apr 30, 1945

End of WWII

Sep 2, 1945