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Holocaust Timeline

By cpeterkin3
  • Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany

    Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany
  • SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

    SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.

  • Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany

  • March 16, 1935: Germany introduces military conscription

  • German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.

  • The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany.

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

  • September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

    September 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

  • Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).

  • Battle of Britain begins.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union.

  • Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.

  • Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.

  • Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).

  • Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.

  • Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.

  • Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

  • Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city

  • Rescue of Jews in Denmark.

  • D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.

  • American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.

  • Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

  • Germany surrenders to the western Allies.

  • Germany surrenders to the Soviets.