The Holocaust in the framework of the Interwar period and the WWII

By laura.moreno66
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    The Holocaust in the framework of the Interwar period and the WWII

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire Decree

    declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.

  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened.

  • Enabling Act.

  • first boycotts of Jewish businesses.

  • Approval of Civil Service Law

    it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.

  • Approval of the Education Law

    it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.

  • Approval of the Sterilization Law

    it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children

  • Approval of the Press Censorship Law.

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”.

  • Approval of the mandatory military service.

  • Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”.

    being excluded of being accounted as German population.

  • Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.

  • Annexation of Austria.

  • Jewish Name Law

    It forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.

  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany.

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany.

  • Kristallnacht.

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia.

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression.

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”

    It would cause 250,000 deaths.

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.

  • Germany invaded Western Europe.

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France.

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.

  • Axis alliance

    (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union

  • Jewish badge mandatory for Jewish population.

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan.

    USA ented into the World War II.

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno

    the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.

  • Wannsee Conference

    approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).

  • Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”

    name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • Allied forces invaded North Africa.

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration

    the mass murder.

  • German defeat at Stalingrad.

  • first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

  • Surrender of Italy.

  • Germany occupied Hungary.

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.

  • Surrender of Germany.

    End of the World War II in Europe.