The Horrific Events of the Holocaust

Adolf Hitler is Appointed Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Elected by President Paul Von Hindenburg.

German Parliment Passes Enabling Act giving hitler dictatorial powers

Mar 24, 1933

German Parliment Passes Enabling Act giving hitler dictatorial powers to make new laws and prohibit certain things in ones life.

Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.

Sep 29, 1933

Hitler banned Jews from having anything in their ownership.

Jews are not allowed national health insurance

May 17, 1934

In their 25-point party program Nazi party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from “Aryan” society and to abrogate their political, legal, and civil rights.

Jew are prohibited from getting legal qualifications

Jul 22, 1934

In their 25-point party program, party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from “Aryan” society and to abrogate their political, legal, and civil rights.

Nazis banned jews from military

May 21, 1935

Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military. Hitler created many laws, decrees, directives, guidelines, and regulations that increasingly restricted the civil and human rights of the Jews in Germany.

Nazis occupy the Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.

Kristallnacht

Nov 9, 1938

A massive attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938. Also known as The Night of Broken Glass.

Yellow stars

Nov 23, 1939

Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10. The star was used to humiliate Jews and to mark them out for segregation and discrimination.

Gas Chambers

Mar 22, 1943

Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz. Large chambers in which people were locked in and killed by poison gas. These were built and used in Nazi death camps.