Brief History of Holocaust

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Mar 28, 1933

Nazi Party is declared the only political party in Germany

Mar 28, 1933

Hitler assumes the titles of both President and Chancellor after the death of Paul von Hindenberg

Mar 28, 1934

Nuremberg Laws

Mar 28, 1935

Nuremberg Race Laws deny German Jews of citizenship, military service, and political rights. Marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews are prohibited. Nazis define a Jew as anyone with three Jewish grandparents or who belonged to the Jewish community and had two Jewish grandparents. Those with any trace of Jewish blood are termed Mischling or “hybrid”

Olympic Games are held in Nazi Germany

Mar 28, 1936

Germany and Italy sign the Rome-Berlin Axis agreement

Mar 28, 1936

Germany annexes Austria

Mar 28, 1938

Crystal Night

Mar 28, 1938

Pogrom of Kristallnacht (“Crystal night” or the “night of the broken glass”) is carried out after the assassination of an official in the Paris-German embassy. Germans kill ninety-six Jews; one thousand synagogues are destroyed; seven thousand Jewish businesses are looted; and thiery-thousand Jews are arrested

Hitler and Stalin sign Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

Mar 28, 1939

Hitler invades Poland

Mar 28, 1939

Jews are required to wear the Star of David

Mar 28, 1939

Germany wages war on Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and England

Mar 28, 1940

Auschwitz concentration camp is established

Mar 28, 1940

Three thousand units of the Einsatzgruppen begin the “special task” of exterminating what would amount by 1943 to 1.25 million Eastern European and Soviet Jews

Mar 28, 1940

Germany occupies Yugoslavia and Greece and invades the Soviet Union

Mar 28, 1941

Thirty-three thousand Jews are mass murdered outside of Kiev at Babii Yar

Mar 28, 1941

Dutch Jews are slated for concentration and deportation

Mar 28, 1942

Jews are deported to the killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Norway

Mar 28, 1942

German Sixth Army is defeated at Stalingrad

Mar 28, 1943

Allies invade Normandy on D-Day

Mar 28, 1944

Senior German officers fail in assassination attempt against Hitler

Mar 28, 1944

Death marches of deported Jews begin from Budapest to Austria and from the evacuation of Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Buchenwald.

Mar 28, 1945

Hitler withdraws to bunker under the garden of the old chancellery (“Alte Reichskanzlei”)

Mar 28, 1945

Hitler marries his lover Eva Braun, and the two commit suicide in the bunkerIn the bunker, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife commit suicide after killing their six children.

Mar 28, 1945

Germany surrenders on VE-Day

Mar 28, 1945