Holocaust Timeline

By Shuk

  • End of the First World War

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Rise of the Nazi Party

  • Nazi Party Changes Leader

  • Adolf Hitler's attempt at an armed overthrow of local authorities in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch , failed miserably

  • Hitler Writes "Mein Kampf"(My Struggle)

  • Black Tuesday: The U.S. stock market crashes, leading into the Great Depression

  • Nazis elected: Germans elected the Nazis, making them the 2nd largest political party in Germany.

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • Oranienburg opened: First concentration camp opened at the outside of Berlin.

  • Burning of Books: Nazis ordered to burn the books of Jews and everyone whose ideas where not accepted.

  • Hitler declares himself Führer of Germany.

  • Olympics in Germany

  • Anschluss: Germany announces the union with Austria.

  • "Kristall Nacht" (Night of the broken glass)

  • Germany takes Poland

  • Beginning of WWII

  • Dunkirk Evacuation

  • Tripartite Pact signed

  • More countries become Nazi allies. The Warsow Ghetto is scaled off.

  • Hungary joins the Axis

  • Nazis obliged Jews to wear the Yellow Star.

  • First experimental use of gas in Auschwitz concentration camp

  • Genocide of 11 million prisoners. More Ghettoes

  • Pearl Harbor is attacked by Japan.

  • The massive murder of Jews began in Auschwitz.

  • D-Day: Normandy landings.

  • The last day that people were killed with gas in Auschwitz.

  • Death of Hitler

  • Hiroshima is attacked with an atomic bomb by the U.S.

  • Nagasaki's atomic bomb

  • The Nuremberg Trials begin.