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Jewish Life in Europe Before The Holocaust
A treaty was passed for all discrimination towards Jews and equality. -
A CONCOCTED JEWISH CONSPIRACY
In France, a member of the Russian secret police concocts the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Protocols promote claims that there exists a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. -
The Nazi Terror Begins
Adolf Hitler replaces elected Government officias with Nazi appointees. The plan is to take over Germany and the start is take out Germanys Government -
NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF JEWISH-OWNED BUSINESSES
"SA and SS members stand in front of Jewish-owned businesses throughout Germany to inform the public that the proprietors of these establishments are Jewish. The word "Jude," German for "Jew," is often smeared on store display windows, with a Star of David painted in yellow and black across the doors. Anti-Jewish signs accompany these slogans. In some towns, the SA marches through the streets singing anti-Jewish slogans and party songs. In other towns, violence accompanies the boycott; in Kiel" -
NAZIS SEIZE CONTROL OF TRADE UNIONS
Storm Troopers (SA) and police occupy the offices of trade unions. -
Joseph Goebbls speaks at a book burning in Berlin
Joseph Goebbls speaks at a book burning in Berlin Nazi students begin burning books. Libraries across Germany are purged of "censored" books. Goebbels proclaims the "cleansing of the German spirit." -
Nazi Racisim
Adolf Hitler made a law that every sick child was to be killed -
NAZI PARTY BECOMES THE STATE PARTY
All political parties except the Nazi party are gone. The Nazi party is the only political party allowed in Germany, a situation that will last until the military defeat of Germany in 1945. -
JEWS REQUIRED TO ASSUME "JEWISH" NAME
The German government requires all Jews in Germany whose first name is not immediately recognizable as Jewish to add a "Jewish" name following their first name. -
GERMANS BEGIN KILLING OF THE IMPAIRED
killing begins of those Germans whom the Nazis deem "unworthy of life." Groups of "consultants" visit hospitals and nursing homes and decide who is to die. Selected patients are sent to one of six gassing installations -
937 JEWISH REFUGEES FLEE NAZI GERMANY AND SAIL FOR HAVANA, CUBA
A German passenger ship, the St. Louis, leaves the port of Hamburg with approximately 900 passengers, mainly Jewish refugees holding Cuban landing permits. On 15 May 1939, the St. Louis stops in Cherbourg, France, to take on more passengers. The total number of passengers reaches 937. The captian knew, but no one else knew that Cuban government invalidated all shipping ports. -
World War II in Europe
German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes, break through Polish defenses along the border and advance on Warsaw in a massive encirclement. -
The Murder of the Handicapped
Adolf Hitler passed a law that for everyone who is handicapped, is to be killed by being put in a gas chamber. -
Roosevelt
Roosevelt sympathized with the allies -
AUSCHWITZ I CAMP OPENS
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Navy set up first time piece draft
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Jews Are Orderd in to the Ghetto
The Germans announce the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. All Jewish residents of Warsaw are ordered into the designated area, which will be sealed off from the rest of the city in November 1940 -
Tresury
Britian's Treasury was empty -
KILLING SQUADS DEPLOYED AGAINST JEWS
German mobile killing squads, called special duty units are assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union. -
Jaan invades
Japan invaded the French colony of Indochina. -
Rooseveelt and Churhhill
Roosevelt and Churchhill isssued the Atlantic Charter, outlining their goals for the postwar world -
HITLER OFFICIALLY ORDERS END TO "EUTHANASIA" KILLINGS
Mounting public criticism of the "euthanasia" killings prompts Adolf Hitler to order the end of the program. Gas chambers in the various "euthanasia" killing centers are dismantled. By this time, about 70,000 German and Austrian physically or mentally impaired patients have been killed. -
BADGE IDENTIFYING JEWS INTRODUCED IN GERMANY
Jews over the age of six in Germany are required to wear a yellow, six-pointed star with the word "Jude" (German for "Jew") across the front in black, sewn to their outer clothing at all times. This is so that Germans can distinquish between the Jews and the non Jews. -
CONSTRUCTION OF AUSCHWITZ II (BIRKENAU) BEGINS
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A KILLING SQUAD COMMANDER REPORTS 137,346 KILLED
SS Colonel Karl Jaeger reports on the killings his unit carried out in Lithuania between July 2 and December 1, 1941. He reports that his squad killed 137,346 Jewish men, women, and children. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombers launched asuprise attack on America naval, air ad ground forces at Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian ildan of oahu. -
Japan
A Japanese attack on U.S. soil brought America to the war -
Soviets Resist
Soviets haulted Nazis -
Europe and Africa
Nazis invaded Europe and North Africa -
AUSCHWITZ III CAMP OPENS
