holocaust

  • 1933

    in 1933 Hitler rose to power and took over all of Germany. he was able to pass the enabling act that gave him the most power in Europe. once the act was passed Hitler took fast action against the Jewish people nazis had started boycotting the Jewish-owned stores.
  • 1935

    the german people were given birth cards to determine who they could and could not marry.
  • 1938

    on The night of the broken glass nazis broke in and burnt down a lot of Jewish business leaving them jobless and sent them to concentration camps. in order to avoid being put in a concentration camp they tried to leave the country.
  • 1939

    the Jewish tried to escape the concentration camp by sailing to different countries but other counties would not take them in in fear of the germans.
  • 1939

    the Jewish are finally freed from the camps but they were broke and stranded and had to rely soup drives
  • 1940

    the german government sealed off the ghetto restricting supplies by a lot so the Jewish had to suffer even more.
  • cover up

    to cover up the serious crimes the nazis committed they started killing the jews and burning them leaving nothing eles.
  • 1944

    some jews were put in a cart crammed 80 to 100 at a time to be taken to a killing camp they would be gassed or burned.
  • 1944

    the nazis were unable to kill all the jews in time so they took them on death marches. when American soldiers got further into Germany they started finding old abandoned concentration camps and they exposed it to the world to make sure everyone knew the horror that took place.
  • 1945

    the nazis had to go to post-war trials for the genocide they committed. a lot of the soilers used "I did what I was ordered" but the judge wasn't having it. they said that wasn't a good enough excuse for what they did. because they knew what they did was very wrong even if it was ordered. the nazis got charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.