Holocaust Timeline By cpeterkin3 Jan 30, 1933 Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany Hitler is appointed 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 Mar 16, 1935 March 16, 1935: Germany introduces military conscription Mar 7, 1936 German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland. May 13, 1939 The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany. Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement. Sep 1, 1939 September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe. May 10, 1940 Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries). Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins. Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union. Jul 6, 1941 Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. Aug 3, 1941 Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon Sep 28, 1941 Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev. Nov 7, 1941 Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka). Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day. 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. Nov 23, 1942 Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city Oct 1, 1943 Rescue of Jews in Denmark. Jun 6, 1944 D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France. Apr 29, 1945 American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp. Apr 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide. May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies. May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
