World War II

By 19almenger

  • Definition

    Holocaust: Destruction / Slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
    Jews were defined as the "other" through legalized discrimination.

  • 1933

    The Nazi Party takes power in Germany.
    -Hitler becomes prime minister of Germany
    -Nazis 'temporarily' suspend laws created for the good of the community.
    -Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau
    -First inmates were 200 communists.
    -Books with ideas/religion beliefs were considered dangerous and burned.

  • 1934

    -Hitler combines chancellor and president to become 'Fuhrer'/leader of Germany.

  • 1935

    -Jews are deprived of their citizenship and other basic rights.
    -Nazis intensify the persecution of political people that don't agree with Hitlers philosophy.

  • 1936

    -Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses.
    -Olympics are in Germany, signs barring Jews are removed until the event is over.
    -Jews no longer have the right to vote.

  • 1938

    -German troops annexed Austria
    -Kristallnacht, the 'Night of Broken Glass' Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria - 30,000 Jews are arrested.
    -Jews must carry around I.D. cards and Jewish passports marked with a J.
    -Jews no longer head businesses, attend plays/concerts.
    -All Jewish children are moved to Jewish schools.
    -Jewish businesses are shut down; must sell businesses and hand over securities and jewels.
    -Jews must hand over drivers licenses and car registrations.
    -Curfew.

  • 1939

    -Germany takes over czechoslovakia and invades Poland.
    -World War II begins: Britain and France declare war on Germany.
    -Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; Jews must turn in radios to the police, must wear yellow stars of David.

  • 1940

    -Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland
    -Jews are forced into ghettos
    -Nazis begin first mass murder of Jews in Poland
    -Jews are put into concentration camps

  • 1941

    -Germany attacks the Soviet Union
    -Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos
    -Jews may not leave their houses without permission from the police
    -No longer allowed to use public telephones

  • 1942

    -'Final Solution': Plan to kill all European Jews
    -Jews are forbidden to: subscribe to newspapers, keep pets, electrical equipment including typewriters, own bicycles, buy meat, or eggs, use public transportation, or attend school

  • 1943

    -80-85% of Jews who would die in holocaust have already been murdered.

  • 1944

    -Hitler takes of Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz

  • 1945

    -Hitler is defeated in WWII
    -Death camps are emptied, the Holocaust is over
    -Many survivors are placed in displaced persons facilities

  • 1946

    -An International Military Tribunal (Judicial Assembly) was created by Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union
    -At Nuremberg, Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes by the above Judicial Assembly

  • 1947

    The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British- controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948