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Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889.
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The start of the Holocaust started when the European war ended.During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsh persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities.
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40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
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the first concentration camp was in Dachau. the first inmates were primarily political prisoners most of them were Communists or Social Democrats,criminals they also held jewish journalist and writers were held in the camps as well.
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
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the Nuremburg Race Laws against the German Jews.
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland.
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Kristallnacht. Destructions of Jewish Synagogues and other communmity property by rampaging gangs. German Jews forced to pay a 1 billiion mark fine for the damage inflicted on them by the Nazi mobs.
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Hermann Göring takes charge of resolving the "Jewish Question."
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by 1938 'Aryanization' of Jewish businesses meant that only about 9,000 businesses were still in Jewish hands. they had started to figure about 7,500 businesses would mean that Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed. However, 7,500 destroyed businesses out of 9,000 total are 84%.
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German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.
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Nuremburg Trials of major surviving leaders of Nazi Germany, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Holocaust evidence presented in detail as one part of the trial.
Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others (targeted groups like the Gypsies and homosexuals, as well as individual resiters and other victims of the Nazis) were victims of the Holocaust, the planned and organized implementation of mass murder arising out of Nazi racial and political theories. In total, the deaths arisi -
Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Found guilty and hanged at Ramleh on May 31, 1962. A fellow Nazi reported Eichmann once said "he would leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."
