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Hitler Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany -
First concentration camp opened
The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany -
Jewish shops boycotted
Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses -
'Undesirables' sent to camps
Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps -
Jewish persecution
An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that: Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. Jews cannot marry non-Jews. Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews. -
Austrian Jews Persecuted
Austrian Jews Persecuted -
Munich synagogue destroyed
Synagogue in Munich was destroyed -
Passports stamped
Kewish passports had to ne stamped with a letter J. -
Krristallnacht
A turning point for how jews were treated.
Approximately 100 Jews were murdered, 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the Windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed. -
Reparation
jews made to pay for Kristallnacht -
Banned from schools
jewish children were banned from German schools -
Deportation
Austrian and Czechoslavakian Jews were sent to Poland. -
Yellow Star
Jews in Poland were forced to sew yellow stars on their clothes so they could be identified. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz was opened. The most notorious death camp. -
Warsaw ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off. There were approx. 40,000. Jewish people inside including women ands children. -
death Squads
Death squads roamed Russia 33,00 were killed in two days. -
Reinhard Heydrich
Heydrich was chosen to implement the "final Solution" -
death Camp
Chelmo was opened as a death camp -
Mass Gassing
Mass gassing began at Auschwitz.-Birkenau -
Mass Gassing
Mass Gassing of Jews from occupied countries -
Gypsies persecuted
Gypsyies were sent to concentration camps -
Warsaw Ghetto cleared
An order was issued to empty the Warsaw Ghetto and deport the inmates to Treblinka. Following the deportation of some Warsaw Jews, news leaked back to those remaining in the Ghetto of mass killings.A group of about 750 mainly young people decided that they had nothing to lose by resisting deportation. Using weapons smuggled into the Ghetto they fired on German troops who tried to round up inmates for deportation.They held out for almost a month before they were overcome. -
evidence destroyed
Evidence from the death camps was destroyed -
last use of gas chambers
The gas chambers were used for the final time at Auschwitz. -
Death of tyrant
Hitler commits suicide -
Surrender
Germany surrenders
