The road to Auschwitz

By garrett.harrison

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler is appointed as chancellor of Germany.
  • Period: to

    1933-1942

  • Jewish Lawyers can no longerwork in Berlin

  • First Concentration Camp Established

    First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany.

  • Nazi boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany

  • Jewish teachers to be discharged

  • Jews expelled from sports clubs

  • Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees

    April 1933

  • Nazis burn books considered non-german

  • Jews expelled from choir clubs

  • Jews not allowed to use the beach in Wannsee

  • Jews cannot belong to German automobile club

  • Jewish actors and actresses prohibited from performing

  • Jewish writers no longer allowed to write

  • Jewish musicians prohibited from performing

  • Marruages between citizens of German blood and Jews punished with prison. Marriages contracted despite this are void

  • Nazi government declared "racial laws" making jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between jews and non-jews

  • The conversion from Judaism to Christianity has no bearing on race-- based on birth one was still considered a jew

  • The summer olympics are held in Berlin. The Nazis remove anti-jewish signs and restrained anti-jewish activities.

  • Jews were not allowed to graduate

  • Aryan and not Aryan children not allowed to play together

  • Germany annexes Austria. Thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-jewish actions that follow

  • Jewish doctors can no longer practice

  • Streets with Jewish names to be renamed

  • Jews to add middle name of "Sarah" or "Israel"

  • Passports of Jews to be stamped with a "J"

  • The Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot jewish homes and businesses. Approximately 30,000 jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps

  • Jewish employees may be discharged without notice or benefits

  • Jews not allowed to go to movies, operas and concerts

  • Jews cannot be self employed in any trade

  • Jewish students no longer allowed to attend public schools

  • Jews to hand in driver's license

  • Jews not allowed to use swimming pools

  • Jews not allowed to take valuables when emigrating

  • In Bavarian square Jews only allowed to sit on yellow benches

  • Jews to turn in gold, silver, platinum and pearls

  • Jews can be thrown out of their homes without notice or compensation and placed in "Jew Homes"

  • Jew's last will and testament no longer valid

  • German troops invade Poland. Starting WW2

  • Jews to turn in radios

  • Nazi government begins the "t-4 program"

  • German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Poznan. Danzig and Lodz to locations in the general government

  • German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

  • German troops invade the soviet Union

  • German mobile killing squads were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behind the front lines

  • Jews over the age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow star of david in public at all times

  • Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga and Minsk begins

  • Gassing operations began at the Chelmno killing center

  • Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution(genocide of the Jews)

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz