Holocaust

Holocaust

By gabbymoosh

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
    Hitler became Chancellor of Germany by following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.

  • Hitler becomes the leader of Germany

    Hitler becomes the leader of Germany
    Leader, or 'Fuhrer'.

  • Jews lose their citizenship and other basic rights

    Jews lose their citizenship and other basic rights
    Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws. Germany’s parliament (the Reichstag), then made up entirely of Nazi representatives, passed the laws.

  • Kristallnact

    Kristallnact
    Nazis terrorize Jews throughout Germany and Austria. 30,000 Jews are detained. Kristallnact, or the "Night of the Broken Glass".

  • Ghettos

    Ghettos
    Jews are forced into ghettos and are put into concentration camps.

  • Nazi officials discuss the "Final Solution" to the government officials.

    Nazi officials discuss the "Final Solution" to the government officials.
    Their plan was to kill all European Jews in order to create the Aryan race.

  • Jews' Rapid Deaths

    Jews' Rapid Deaths
    80-85% of all the Jewish people who would die in the Holocaust already have been murdered.

  • Hitler takes control in Hungary

    Hitler takes control in Hungary
    Hitler takes power in Hungary, he orders the deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, where they would be slaughtered.

  • Hitler is finally defeated

    Hitler is finally defeated
    Holocaust is over and the camps are emptied. Many survivors are placed in displaced persons facilities. World War II ends in Europe.