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Beginning of Afolf Hitler
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany -
First Concentration Camps
SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich -
Assault on Jews
Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany -
Book Burning
On April 6th, 1933, the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Association proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit", which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" ("Säuberung") by fire. -
Kristallnacht
In a nationwide program called Kristallnacht ("Night of Crystal," more commonly known as the "Night of Broken Glass"), members of the Nazi Party and other Nazi formations burn synagogues, loot Jewish homes and businesses, and kill at least 91 Jews. The Gestapo, supported by local uniformed police, arrests approximately 30,000 Jewish men and imprisons them in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and Buchenwald concentration camps. -
World War II
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe -
Ghetto
Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland -
Western Europe
Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries) -
Nazi Crimes
News of Nazi crimes reached Poland. -
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day -
Mass Deportation
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center -
Extreme Deportation
Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz) -
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. -
Hermann Goering
Hermann Goering's Trial -
Suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide -
Surrender
Germany surrenders to the western Allies -
Surrendering to Soviet
Germany surrenders to the Soviets -
The Four Power Delagation
United States, Great Britain, France and Soviet Union formed a four power delegation. -
Teaming Up
The 4 Power Delegation agreed to the terms, and were officially formed. -
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Numbreg Trials
nuremberg trial in germany -
Trial
Trial hosted by the Amercians and British. -
Ending of Trials
nuremberg trial ended. -
Trial Sentences Pronunced
The day after the verdicts were rendered in the Nuremberg Trials, sentences were pronounced. Twelve of Nazi Germany's most murderous leaders were given slightly two weeks more to live, with hangings scheduled for October 15. -
Hermann Goering's death
Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison -
10 Nazi leaders hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg trials
-Alfred G Jodl, Col-Gen/German staff chief weather authority,hanged
Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s), hanged at 54
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian Nazi (SS), hanged
Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged
Granville Ransome Bantock, English composer/conductor, dies at 78
Hans Franc, German war criminal, hanged
Hermann Wilhelm Goering, German SA-leader, commits suicide at 53
Joachim von Ribbentrop, German war crimina -
Nazi Hunters finding evidence
Simon Wiesentha started to gather evidence on Nazi War Criminals -
Adolf Eichmen Captured
Adolf Eichmen, Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo was captured
