Holocaust Timeline

By Ebohle
  • The Condemned

    The Condemned

    After taking power, the Nazi's had concentrated on silencing their political opponnts-communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government.
  • The Persecution Begins

    The Persecution Begins

    Hitler ordered all "non-Aryan" to b removed from goverment jobs.
  • Jews Targeted

    Jews Targeted

    The Nuremburg laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property, to make it easier for the Nazi’s to be identified.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

    Became known as Kristallnacht, or “night of broken glass.” Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.
  • St. Louis

    St. Louis

    St. Louis was a boat full of Jews who were coming to find refuge in the United States, we sent them back and more than half of them were later killed in the Holocaust.
  • The Final Solution

    The Final Solution

    Started with Hitler’s death squads, Hitler’s “security squadrons” rounded up Jews-men women, children, and babies-and shot them. Nazi’s surrounded the ghettos with barbed wire and stone walls. Bodies piled in the streets. Secret schools were set up to educate Jewish children, theater and music groups continued to operate. Jews not killed were shipped to concentration camps, or labor camps. Inmates crammed into wooden barracks, hordes of rats, and fleas, the hunger was unbearable.
  • Death Camps

    Death Camps

    TheGermn built six death camps in Poland. Each had several huge gas chambers which 12,000 people could be killed a day.
  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage

    Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews. As deadly as overwork, starvation, beatings, and bullets were, they did not kill fast enough to satisfy the Nazi’s. So the Nazi’s decided to build 6 death camps, and each camp included several gas chambers, killing as many as 12,00 people a day.