Holocaust and WWII Timeline By hbonini741 Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed as German Chancellor. Mar 20, 1933 First Nazi concentration camp is formed at Dachau Apr 1, 1933 Gestapo, Nazi secret police, were formed May 10, 1933 25,000 "un-German" books were burned Oct 1, 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg laws were established and relationships between Jews and Aryans were banned Dec 1, 1936 Hitler Youth membership made compulsory for all boys Feb 16, 1938 Adolf Hitler orders the release of imprisoned Austrian Nazis Aug 11, 1938 Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg Sep 29, 1938 Hitler and Chamberlain sign the Munich Agreement Nov 1, 1938 "Crystal Night" - Jewish shops and synagogues were destroyed Aug 1, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, agreement made to divide Poland Aug 25, 1939 Anglo-Polish Common defense pact Sep 1, 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and defeated it Sep 3, 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany Oct 1, 1940 Daylight and night bombings on Britain Dec 31, 1940 356 ghettos in Poland. Ghettos were overcrowded and filthy Jan 1, 1941 Mass murder of Jews start. Einsatzgruppen kill 1,500,000 Jews by shooting them but death camps would start to be used. Sep 1, 1941 Nazis began using gassing vans Dec 7, 1941 Japanese attacks US at Pearl Harbor Dec 11, 1941 Hitler declares war on the US Jan 1, 1942 Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibór began as concentration camps. 2.7 million Jews were killed in these camps. Jan 1, 1943 At the end of 1942, 5.4 million Jews were killed Apr 30, 1945 American's free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
