WW2 timeline by cole barritt

By ctrain156

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • Dachau, the first concentration camp, is opened

  • Enabling Act is passed

    Gives Hitler absolute power

  • First of the Nuremberg Laws is published

    Takes rights away from Jews and forbids marriage between Jews and “Aryans”

  • representatives from 32 countries met in Evian, France

    to discuss the growing refugee crisis in Europe

  • Kristallnacht

    Nazi-instigated rampage against Jewish shops in Germany and Austria

  • Regulations Against Jews

    made it illegal for Jews to carry firearms or other weapons

  • German invasion of Poland

    Starts WWII

  • first instance of mass murder by gas under Hitler’s rule

  • The Nazis begin a program of gassing the mentally disabled in Germany

  • Nazi pseudo-documentary The Eternal Jew

    attempted to justify the extermination of Jews from Europe

  • Auschwitz concentration camp is opened in Poland

    a prison for Poles and an outstation for colonization of the East

  • Germans and their allies invade the Soviet Union

  • First gassings with Zyklon-B at Auschwitz

  • 33,000 Soviet Jews are massacred

    buried in a mass grave at Babi Yar, outside Kiev, Ukraine

  • Wannsee Conference discusses the “Final Solution”

  • Operation Harvest Festival

    18,000-40,000 Jews at Majdanek concentration camp are massacred

  • liberated Majdanek

  • Last gassings at Auschwitz

  • Soviet troops entered Birkenau

  • Auschwitz is liberated by Russians

  • Bergen-Belson was the first camp to be liberated by Western Allied officers

  • Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker

  • last concentration camp is liberated by the U.S.

  • Allies accept Germany’s unconditional surrender