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Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. In 1933, more than 9 million Jews lived in Europe. By 1945, the Germans and their allies and collaborators had killed nearly two out of every three European Jews. Nazi policies also led to the discrimination, persecution, and murder of millions of others. Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust. -
Hitler Campaign Speech
In July 1932 the Nazi Party wins 230 seats in German parliamentary elections, becoming the largest party represented -
Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Nazi Party, assumes control of the German state when German President Paul von Hindenburg appoints Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor at the head of a coalition government -
Anti-Jewish Laws in Hungary
Hungary adopts comprehensive anti-Jewish laws and measures, excluding Jews from many professions. -
Kristallnacht
Nazi Party officials, members of the SA and the Hitler Youth carry out a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Greater Germany -
Warsaw Ghetto Sealed
German authorities order the Warsaw ghetto to be sealed -
Wannsee Conference
Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), convenes the Wannsee Conference in a villa outside Berlin. -
Deportation of Dutch Jews
German authorities begin the deportation of Dutch Jews from the Westerbork, Amersfoort, and Vught camps in the Netherlands to killing centers and concentration camps in Germany and German-occupied Poland -
Attempt to Assassinate Hitler
German military officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his East Prussian headquarters at Rastenburg -
Hitler Commits Suicide
As Soviet forces near his command bunker in central Berlin on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Berlin falls to the Soviets within days