Holocaust

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  • Treaty of Versailles is Signed

  • Adolf Hitler attempts Beer Hall Putsch.

  • Hitler publishes his book

    "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") is published.

  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.

  • All religious literature printed by Jehovah's Witnesses banned from circulation in Germany

  • German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.

  • Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.

  • Olympic games begin in Berlin.

  • Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg

  • Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.

  • Nazis invade Poland

  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany

  • Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.

  • Auschwitz

    Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.

  • Warsaw Ghetto is established

  • Yellow Star

    All Jews in German controlled areas must wear the yellow Star Of David.

  • The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.

  • Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor.

  • D-Day

    Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.

  • Aushwitz is liberated by the soviet army

  • Hiroshima Atomic Bomb

  • Nurenberg trials

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