The Holocaust Timeline

  • Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
    The Nazi Party manages control of the German state when the German President, Paul von Hindenburg assigns Adolf Hitler Chancellor.
  • Reichstag Fire Decree

    Reichstag Fire Decree
    The next day after the German parliament building gets set on fire because of arson. Because of this, President Hindenburg proceeds the Decree for the Protection of People and the Reich. The Reichstag Fire Decree gave someone the right to the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents with specific charges.
  • incarcerate of Dachau Camp

    incarcerate of Dachau Camp
    The Dachau Camp as one of the first concentration camp to imprison political enemies. Over 28,000 died at the Dachau Camp. Dachau was the only concentration camp that stayed during the Nazi power.
  • Anti-Jewish Boycott

    Anti-Jewish Boycott
    After 3 months of being in powered, the Nazi leadership makes an economic boycott which attacks Jewish-owned businesses and offices of Jewish professionals. The German people seen this as revenge for the bad international press against Germany since the meeting of Hitler's government in January. Even though this lasted for one day, Germans who did shop at Jewish-owned places ignored this protest
  • Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

    Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
    The German government distributes the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which rejects Jews and other political opponents of the Nazi from all civil service position.
  • Law Limits Jews in Public Schools

    Law Limits Jews in Public Schools
    The German government issues the Law against Overcrowding in schools, which drew the limits the numbers Jewish students attending public schools.
  • Book Burning

    Book Burning
    On May 10, the university students burn upwards of 25,000 books that weren't German in Berlins Opera Square. Over 40,000 people came together to listen to Joseph Goebbels to come up with a fiery address: “No to decadence and moral corruption!”
  • Law for the “Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases”

    Law for the “Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases”
    German government passes the law “Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases,” ordering the forced sterilization of specific individuals with physical and mental and illness disabilities.