Holocaust Timeline By Coco1613 Jan 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany Mar 20, 1933 SS opens the Dachau concentration camps outside of the Munich Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg Race laws Mar 7, 1936 German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland Aug 23, 1939 Nazi- soviet non aggression Agreement Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe Apr 9, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Jul 6, 1941 Mobile killing units shoot nearly 3000 Jews at the seventh fort Period: Sep 28, 1941 to Sep 29, 1941 Mobile killing units shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar Nov 7, 1941 Mobile killing units round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki Nov 30, 1941 Mobile killing units shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula forest Dec 11, 1941 Nazi Germany declares war on the united states Jan 16, 1942 Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the chelmno killing center Apr 19, 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising begins Oct 1, 1943 Rescue of Jews in Denmark May 15, 1944 Germans begin the mass deportation of 440,000 Jews from Hungary Jun 6, 1944 D-day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France Aug 1, 1944 Warsaw polish uprising begins Jan 18, 1945 Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland Jan 27, 1945 Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex Apr 16, 1945 The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the soviets
