Holocaust Time Line 1933-1939

  • Takeover of Power .

    Takeover of Power .

    First session of the Garman Parliament was addressed by Adolf Hitler upon his appointment as chancellor. All political parties in Reichstag with the Enabling Act being passed. Hitler was given power to rule by emergency decree.
  • The Terror Begins

    The Terror Begins

    Communists, Socialists, and other political opponents of the Nazis were among first to be gathered up and imprisoned by the regime. Storm trooper guards newly arrested members of the Garman Communist Party in a basement jail of the Sa barracks located in Berlin
  • From Citizens to Outcasts

    From Citizens to Outcasts

    Nazis launch a boycott of Jewish shops and businesses across Germany. A lot of Germans proceed to enter the Jewish stores despite the boy-cott it was called off after 24 hours. The number of discriminatory increased measures against Jews followed and remained in consequence.
  • Nazi Race Laws

    Nazi Race Laws

    Laws were issued restricted future German citizenship to those of "German or kindred blood" and left out those deemed to be "racially" Jewish or Gypsy. Nuremberg Laws chart was established to help distinguish individuals with pure German blood, mixed blood, and Jews. Helped stop marriage between Jews and Non Jews.
  • The "Science" of Race

    The "Science" of Race

    The Ayran race is the German people allegedly belonged and stood at the top of the racial hierarchy, The Nazis divided the world’s population into superior and inferior “races.”
  • Night of Broken Glass 11/ 9-10

    Night of Broken Glass 11/ 9-10

    In48 hours, synagogues were vandalized and burned, 7,500 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, 96 Jews were killed, and nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Nazi regime unleashed
    orchestrated anti-Jewish violence
    across greater Germany.
  • Enemies of the State

    Enemies of the State

    Although Jews were their primary targets, the Nazis
    also persecuted Gypsies, persons with mental
    and physical disabilities, and Poles for racial, ethnic, or
    national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah’s
    Wit-nesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political
    dissidents, also suffered oppression and death.
  • Search for Refuge

    Search for Refuge

    Before being allowed to leave, however, Jews were required to
    get an exit visa, plus pay large sums of money in taxes and
    additional fees. Jews in Vienna wait in line at a police station to obtain exit visas. With unleashed of a wave of humiliation, terror,
    and confiscation, many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the
    country.