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Adolf Hitler addresses the first session of the German parliament -
In September of 1935 the nazi race laws restricted future German citizenship to those of German or kindred blood and excluded those deemed to be racially Jewish or Roma -
Following the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938 and the unleashing of a wave of humiliation error and confiscation many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the country. -
On the night of November 9 through the 10th of 1938 the Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti Jewish violence across greater Germany. -
In May 1939 the passenger ship St. Louis sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying 937 passengers most of them Jews. Unknown to the passengers the Cuban government had revoked their landing certificates. -
Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion and conquest of Poland by the German military begun in September 1939 that propelled Europe into World War II. -
From 1942 through 1944 trains carrying Jews from German-controlled Europe were brought to 6 different killing centers ending 6 million Jews during the time of this event. -
At the end of 1942, the Allies were on the offensive and drove back the German forces. -
The Germans confiscated all the personal belongings of the Jews including their clothing and collected them for use or sale. Soviet troops discovered tens of thousands of shoes when they liberated the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland in July 1944. -
The war ended with the surrender of Germany in May 1945 leading to the end of the Holocaust.