Holocaust Timeline By Shawn!!!! Jan 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany Mar 20, 1933 SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich Apr 1, 1933 Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Shops And Businesses In Germany Apr 7, 1933 Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service Jul 14, 1933 Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases Mar 16, 1935 Germany introduces military conscription Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws Mar 7, 1936 German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland Mar 7, 1936 German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland Aug 1, 1936 Summer Olympics begin in Berlin Mar 11, 1938 Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss Sep 29, 1938 Munich Agreement Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht Mar 13, 1939 The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe Oct 8, 1939 Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Jul 6, 1941 Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day Jan 16, 1942 Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center Jul 5, 1943 Battle of Kursk May 15, 1944 Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary Jan 18, 1945 Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland Jan 18, 1945 Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide May 9, 1945 Germany Surrenders To The Soviets
