Holocaust and the Road to WWII

By kingofallpie
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    The End of Weimar

  • Joseph Goebbels speaks at the Sportpalast

    Joseph Goebbels speaks at the Sportpalast

    Joseph Goebbels speech on calling for total war when the tides turned on them in WWII.
    (picture): Joseph Goebbels giving a speech at Sportpalast.
  • Prelate Kaas becomes head of Center party

    Prelate Kaas becomes head of Center party

    Kaas was distressed by the revolution that he joined the Center party.
    (picture): Prelate Kaas
  • German bank crisis

    German bank crisis

    Inflation rises in Germany
    (picture): A chart showing Germany inflation.
  • Reichstag Elections

    Reichstag Elections

    The Nazi's become the biggest political party in Germany.
    (picture): Nazi political party flag.
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    Hitler Takes Control

  • Hindenburg appoints Hitler as Chancellor

    Hindenburg appoints Hitler as Chancellor

    (picture): Hindenburg appointing Hitler as Chancellor.
  • Dachau

    Dachau

    Dachau concentration camp opens.
    (picture): Dachau concentration camp.
  • Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

    Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

    (picture): People boycotting Jewish shops.
  • Gestapo established

    Gestapo established

    HItler's police
    (picture): The Gestapo chasing someone.
  • Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor)

    Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor)

    Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
    (picture): Hitler being greeted.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws

    Anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag.
    (picture): Nuremberg Laws
  • Germans march into the Rhineland

    Germans march into the Rhineland

    Previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.
    (picture): Germans marching into Rhineland.
  • Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

    Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis

    Alliance between Italy and Germany.
    (picture):Hitler and Mussolini forming Rome-Berlin Axis.
  • All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools

    All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools

    (picture): Jews attending a Jewish school.
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    World War 2

  • Germans occupy Czechoslovakia

    Germans occupy Czechoslovakia

    (picture):Germans occupying Czechoslovakia.
  • Beginning of World War II

    Beginning of World War II

    Germany invades Poland.
    (picture): Britain and France declare war on Germany.
  • Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

    Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

    (picture): Auschwitz
  • France surrenders

    France surrenders

    (picture): Article on France surrendering to Germany.
  • United States declares war on Japan and Germany

    United States declares war on Japan and Germany

    (picture): Congress declares war.
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day

    Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich.
    (picture): Article proclaiming VE-Day.
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    Victory over Japan proclaimed.
    (picture): A girl holding a newspaper saying Japan surrenders.
  • Japan Emperor Hirohito gives his first message to the public since the announcement of surrender

    Japan Emperor Hirohito gives his first message to the public since the announcement of surrender

    He renounces the notion of his divinity as a matter of legends and myths, and calls on the nation to eliminate evils of the past, and found a new peaceful Japan.
    (picture): Japan emperor Hirohito.
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    The Aftermath

  • The United States and Great Britain join their German zones of administration

    The United States and Great Britain join their German zones of administration

    (picture): German zones of administration.