Holocaust

  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chanceller

    Adolf Hitler becomes Chanceller

  • Boycott of Jewish businesses

    Boycott of Jewish businesses

  • Burning of Jewish books

    Burning of Jewish books

  • German Jews lose Citizenship

    German Jews lose Citizenship

  • Hitler proclaims himself Fuhrer

    Hitler proclaims himself Fuhrer

  • Nurember laws

    Nurember laws

    anti-Jewish racial laws
    Aryans can't marry Jews
    Jews can't fly German flag
  • Buchenwald concentration camp opens

    Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)
  • All Jewish business transferred to Aryans

  • WWII Begins

    WWII Begins

    Invasion of Poland
  • Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

    Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

  • Goring Appointed to Implement Final solution

    Goring Appointed to Implement Final solution

  • German Jews Required to wear star of David

    German Jews Required to wear star of David

  • Summer Deportation

    Summer Deportation

    Poland, The Netherlands, France, Belgium, and Croatia
  • Winter Deportation

    Winter Deportation

    Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Liquidation of Cracow Ghetto

    Liquidation of Cracow Ghetto

  • Deporation of Hungarian Jews

    Deporation of Hungarian Jews

  • Evacuation of Auschwitz

    Evacuation of Auschwitz

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders