Hitler

Brief History of Holocaust

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  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Nazi Party is declared the only political party in Germany

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

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws

    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

    Olympic Games are held in Nazi Germany

  • Germany and Italy sign the Rome-Berlin Axis agreement

  • Germany annexes Austria

  • Crystal Night

    Crystal Night

    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

  • Hitler invades Poland

  • Jews are required to wear the Star of David

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

  • Auschwitz concentration camp is established

  • 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

  • Germany occupies Yugoslavia and Greece and invades the Soviet Union

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

  • Dutch Jews are slated for concentration and deportation

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

  • German Sixth Army is defeated at Stalingrad

  • Allies invade Normandy on D-Day

  • Senior German officers fail in assassination attempt against Hitler

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

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

  • 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.

  • Germany surrenders on VE-Day