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Holocaust

By selina nicole

  • Hitler campaign speech

    Hitler campaign speech
    Nazi supporters at a campaign rally in Waldenburg, Germany. In a speech, Hitler attacks the Weimar Republic and pledges to dissolve the parliamentary system.

  • Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor
    The Nazi Party assumes control of the German state.

  • Röhm Affair

    Röhm Affair
    Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation.

  • Ban on Jehovah’s Witness Organizations

    Ban on Jehovah’s Witness Organizations
    The German government bans all organizations of the Jehovah's Witness Christian denomination.

  • Jesse Owens Competes in Olympic Games

    Jesse Owens Competes in Olympic Games
    Owens' victory in the 100-meter dash is the first of four gold medals he wins at the 1936 Olympic games.

  • Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
    Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937.

  • Antisemitic Exhibition Opens in Munich

    Antisemitic Exhibition Opens in Munich
    Josef Goebbels and Julius Streicher open the antisemitic exhibition Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) at the library of the German Museum in Munich, Germany.

  • German Annexation of Austria

    German Annexation of Austria
    On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss