WWII

By 6nei
  • Dorothea Diek (victim of holocaust)

    Dorothea Diek (victim of holocaust)

    Born in 1919. Dorothea was sterilized by the nazi regime.
    She was forced to labour in 1944.

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • August Alzen (victim of holocaust)

    August Alzen (victim of holocaust)

    Born 1933. In 1937, forced sterilization. His father died in 1945.

  • 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.

  • Alessandra Bucci (victim of holocaust)

    Alessandra Bucci (victim of holocaust)

    Born in 1939. Arrested in 1944.

  • 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.