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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany. This was the start of Hitler's rise to power and heading towards the destroying of Jews. -
Dachau concentration camp opens
Dachau was the first concentration camp opened -
Hitler abolishes the office of President and declares himself Führer of the German Reich and People. He becomes the absolute dictator of Germany; there are no further legal or constitutional limits to his authority.
The step when Hitler got all the power and could do whatever he wanted without needing to get anyone's approval, the beginning of really pushing down Jews -
Schutzstaffel SS (= "Protection Squadron") chief Himmler creates the Inspectorate of Concentration Camps. This move formalizes the SS takeover and centralization of the concentration camp system that had taken place in July 1934.
Killing Jews and putting them into concentration camps became systematic and controlled by SS -
“Nuremberg Laws”: Anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans, nor could they fly the German flag
Making German Jews not have a country for them anymore and making it allowed by law that they can be treated like they are not humans and they don´t have rights -
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): Anti-Jewish program in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)
Systematically destroying religious safe places of Jews and destroying their shops where they made their money to live, literally destroying everything important to the Jews -
Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin
Systematically taking Jews from their homes and sending them to concentration camps to die -
Deportation of Jews to killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, and Poland; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Kremenets, Lachva, Mir, and Tuchi
Systematically taking Jews from their homes and sending them to concentration camps to die -
Evacuation of Auschwitz; the beginning of death marches
Evacuating any concentration camp is an important event but I chose Auschwitz because it was the largest one and over 1 million Jews died there. It was also the largest and most famous death march. The Germans marched 60,000 prisoners from the camp to the trains (train from Poland to Germany). About 15,000 died on the way. -
Liberation of Mauthausen and Gusen by American Army
The liberation of any concentration camp is an important event but this was the last concentration camp that got liberated and it put an end of pushing Jews systematically down.