Holocaust Timeline

  • Taking power

    Taking power

    The Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents; communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government
  • The Persecution

    The Persecution

    After Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs.
  • Targeting Jews

    Targeting Jews

    The Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property.
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    Kristallnacht

    Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany.
  • The Plight of the St. Louis

    The Plight of the St. Louis

    This German oceean liner passed Miami in 1939. Although 740 of the liner's 943 passengers had US immigration papers, the Coast Guard followed the ship to prevent anyone from disembarking in America. The ship was forced to return to Europe.
  • The Final Solution

    The Final Solution

    A policy of genocide. The people that hitler wanted to get rid of included: Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other Germans whom they found unfit to be part of the "master race."
  • Death Camps

    Death Camps

    Death Camps we places where the people that Germany didn't like would be put ot either work or death.
  • The Final Stage

    The Final Stage

    The way that they killed them was slaughter, starvation, and poison gas.