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Holocaust timeline

  • First Event: Hitler becomes chancellor

    First Event: Hitler becomes chancellor
    On this date Hitler was appointed Chancellor by President Hindenburg. When this happened, the Nazi party grew tremendously and became popular. Which caused the end of power for the Weimer Republic to grow as well.
  • Second Event: Passing of the Enabling Act

    Second Event: Passing of the Enabling Act
    This act was passed on this date and by the Reichstag, except for the Socialist and Communist. It was giving Hitler the power to rule over everything. The Enabling Act is a statute empowering a body or person to take some type of action on regulations, orders, or rules.
  • Third event: Jewish Boycott

    Third event: Jewish Boycott
    During the beginning of April, a tremendous boycott broke out that would eventually mark the beginning of a nationwide campaign, created by the Nazi party to go against Jews living in Germany that would cause a climax in the Holocaust. This boycott was created by the Jews since Hitler was appointed Chancellor.
  • Fourth Event: Law on the Seizure of Assets of Enemies of the People and the State

    Fourth Event: Law on the Seizure of Assets of Enemies of the People and the State
    In conclusion from the Denaturalization Law, this law was passed to get rid of any illegal Jews and immigrants. It also allowed the government to confiscate the Jews in any way as long as they were gotten rid of.
  • Fifth event: Nuremberg Race laws

    Fifth event: Nuremberg Race laws
    On September the Nuremberg laws were passed that were known to be anti-Semitic and racial laws. They didn't identify a jew as having specific religious convictions but instead having three to four Jewish grandparents.
  • Sixth Event: Jews lose rights

    Sixth Event: Jews lose rights
    Jews were banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They were also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
  • Seventh Event: Munich Agreement

    Seventh Event: Munich Agreement
    Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and France all signed the Munich agreement on September. It was because Hitler threatened to unleash a European war unless Sudetenland would surrender to Germany. Those countries wanted to avoid a war with Hitler so they created a Munich Agreement.
  • Ninth Event: Invasion of Poland

    Ninth Event: Invasion of Poland
    The Soviet and German governments sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact, causing an agreement to invade and partition Poland and divide the remainder of eastern Europe into spheres of influence. This led to an invasion on Poland and World War II.