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Holocaust (source Holocaust Musuem Houston Timeline )

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    Holocaust under Nazi Germany

  • Hitler appointed Chancellor in Germany

    Hitler appointed Chancellor in Germany

    Adolf Hitler
  • 1st concentration camp - Dachau - established

    1st concentration camp - Dachau - established

    First concentration camp - Dachau - established
  • Enabling Act of 1933 suspends civil liberties.

    Enabling Act of 1933 suspends civil liberties.

    "Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich")

  • Jewish Professionals barred from their places of employment

    Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Jewish professionals barred from entering their offices and places of employment
  • Gestapo established

    Gestapo established

    Gestapo established; Nazi Secret police

  • “Night of the Long Knives”

    Purge of stormtroopers and nazi opponents
  • “Nuremberg Laws,” anti-Jewish racial laws, enacted.

    “Nuremberg Laws,” anti-Jewish racial laws, enacted.

    “Nuremberg Laws,” anti-Jewish racial laws, enacted.

  • Jews in Reich must register all property with authorities

    Jews in Reich must register all property with authorities

  • Hitler threatens the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews

    Hitler threatens in Reichstag speech that, if war erupts, it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews
  • Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear distinguishing badge

    Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear distinguishing badge

    Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear distinguishing badgeJews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear distinguishing badge

  • First ghetto in Poland established in Piotrków

    First ghetto in Poland established in Piotrków
  • Himmler issues directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz

    Himmler issues directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz

    Himmler issues directive to establish a concentration camp

  • Warsaw Ghetto sealed off; approximately 500,000 inhabitants

    Warsaw Ghetto sealed off; approximately 500,000 inhabitants

  • Heydrich appointed by Goering as responsible for implementation of Final Solution

    Heydrich appointed by Goering as responsible for implementation of Final Solution
  • Establishment of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; site of mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians and others

    Establishment of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; site of mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians and others

    Establishment of Auschwitz-Birkenau camp; site of mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians and others

  • Chelmno extermination camp begins operation; 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered there by April 1943

    Chelmno extermination camp begins operation; 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered there by April 1943
  • Wannsee Conference; Heydrich reveals official, systematic plan to murder all Jews

    Wannsee Conference; Heydrich reveals official, systematic plan to murder all Jews

    final solutionWannsee Conference; Heydrich reveals official, systematic plan to murder all Jews
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    Deportation of Jews to extermination camps from Holland, Poland, France, Belgium and Croatia

    Deportation of Jews to extermination camps from Holland, Poland, France, Belgium and Croatia; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Wieswiez, Mir, Lackwa, Krements and Tuchin
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    Deportation of Jews from Norway, Germany and Greece to extermination camps

  • Liquidation of Krakow Ghetto

  • Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 Warsaw ghetto inhabitants

    Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 ghetto inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June
  • Himmler orders the liquidation of all the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union

    Himmler orders the liquidation of all the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union

    Himmler orders the liquidation of all the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union

  • Liquidation of large ghettos: Minsk, Vilna and Riga

    Liquidation of large ghettos: Minsk, Vilna and Riga

  • Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 38,000 sent to Auschwitz

    Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 38,000 sent to Auschwitz

  • Russians liberate Majdanek extermination camp

    Russians liberate Majdanek extermination camp
  • Gassing ceases at Auschwitz

    Gassing ceases at Auschwitz

    Gassing ceases at Auschwitz

  • Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march for 66,000 camp inmates

    Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march for 66,000 camp inmates

  • Beginning of death march for 50,000 inmates of Stutthof

    Beginning of death march for 50,000 inmates of Stutthof
  • Beginning of death march for 30,000 inmates of Buchenwald

    Beginning of death march for 30,000 inmates of Buchenwald

    Beginning of death march for 30,000 inmates of Buchenwald

  • Hitler commits suicide

    Hitler commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders to Allies, Ends the Third Reich