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The holocaust timeline

  • Hitler comes to power

    Hitler comes to power
    Hitler came to power when the leader died he did not hold another election he just became the person in charge and disbanded all other political parties.
  • From citizens to outcasts

    From citizens to outcasts
    nazis posted boycott signs for Jewish stores across Germany
  • book burning in berlin

    book burning in berlin
    Nazis would take books that had an "un-German Spirit" such as books that disagreed with the government.
  • search for refuge

    search for refuge
    Jews in Vienna wait for their visas in a line outside the police station
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Kristallnacht also known as the "night of broken glass" was a night in November when nazis went from the store to store breaking windows and harassing jews
  • american responses

    american responses
    the ship st. Louis Carrying 937 passengers mainly jews went to Cuba than America where they were denied permission at both sites when they got back around 250 of the passengers died in the holocaust
  • the war begins

    the war begins
    Germany invades Poland and Europe goes to war
  • life in the ghetto

    life in the ghetto
    German authorities sealed warsaw ghetto off and restricted supplies
  • Mobile killing squads

    Mobile killing squads
    following the Russian invasion, Germany deployed these killing units and about a quarter of the jews that were killed in the holocaust were killed by them
  • death marches

    death marches
    nazis marched the jews and they were maltreated
  • Hitler dead

    Hitler dead
    Hitler committed suicide
  • postwar trials

    postwar trials
    major war criminals were put on trial