Holocaust

By bfitz826

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland. The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler became Chancellor

  • Dachau camp

    A camp that had several different types of people and forced people to do labor. Medical experiments were also performed on prisoners.

  • The Boycott of Jewish business

    On April 1, 1933, the Nazis carried out the first nationwide, planned action against them: a boycott of Jewish businesses. Nazi spokesmen claimed the boycott was an act of revenge against both German Jews and foreigners, including US and English journalists, who had criticized the Nazi regime.

  • Nuremburg Laws

    At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood."

  • Kristallnacht/the night of the broken glass

    A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass.

  • Auschwitz

    The best estimates of the number of victims at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, including the killing center at Auschwitz-Birkenau, between 1940 and 1945 are: Jews (1,095,000 deported to Auschwitz, of whom 960,000 died); Poles (147,000 deported, of whom 74,000 died); Roma (23,000 deported, of whom 21,000 died); Soviet prisoners of war (15,000 deported and died); and other nationalities (25,000 deported, of whom 12,000 died).

  • Final Solution

    15 leading officials of the Nazi state met at a villa in Wannsee, a suburb of Berlin, to discuss the 'Final solution of the Jewish Question'. The 'Final solution' was a code name for the murder of all the Jews of Europe.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.