De 1933

Holocaust

  • Hitler elected high chancellor

    Hitler is elected and slowly creates new laws to help the Nazi party secure a majority
  • German parliament burns down

    This allows for Hitler to create emergency power for the Nazi party and gives him a dictatorship
  • Dachau concentration camp is opened

    Dachau is opened for political prisoners who supposedly were involved in the Reichstag Fire
  • Dachau concentration camp

    Opened for political opponents and those "responsible" for the Reichstag Fire
  • Nuremberg laws passed

    This stops German Jews from having basic rights and prevents them from entering specific professions
  • Kristallnacht

    "The night of broken glass" occurs where many of Hitlers "storm troopers" attacked Jewish businesses across Germany
  • Germany invades Poland

  • Germany invades Poland

    WW2 begins. Jews forced to live in ghettos and wear yellow stars of David
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    WWII

  • SS massacres

    SS expand with German troops and create badly planned massacres many SS officers commit suicide shortly after
  • Expanding of Auschwitz into a death camp

    The beginning of Zyklon-B gas in permanent gas chambers as well as carbon monoxide from engines outside piped in part of final solution.