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Holocaust Timeline

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    Holocaust Timeline

  • Takeover of Power

    Takeover of Power

    In March 1933, Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his appointment as chancellor. All of the political parties in Reichstag except socialist and communist pass the "Enabling Act". This gave Adolf the power to rule by "emergency" decree.
  • From Citizens to Outcast

    From Citizens to Outcast

    Boycott signs were posted in windows in all Jewish stores where Adolf had ordered all of them to be shut down/ boycotted all across Germany. The discrimination only begun there.
  • Nazi Race Laws

    Nazi Race Laws

    These laws enforced that anyone of "German or kindred blood" couldn't obtain German citizenship. And Jews and non-Jews could not have any kind of relationship ever.
  • The "Science" of Race

    The "Science" of Race

    The Nazi's divided there people into superior and inferior "races". The "Aryan Race" was on top of their racial hierarchy.
  • The Night of Broken Glass

    The Night of Broken Glass

    The Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti-Jewish violence across greater Germany. 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, 100 Jews were killed, and 30,00 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
  • Enemies of the State

    Enemies of the State

    Jews were sent to concentration camps along with Gypsies, and people with mental and physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Wit-nesses, and prisoners of war. They all suffered oppression and death.
  • Search for Refugee

    Search for Refugee

    Many Jews are trying to obtain there exit visas. After the terror and humiliation many Austrian Jews tried to leave the country to escape the Nazi's. If you are lucky enough to get a exit visa you had to pay large sums of money still, in order to leave.
  • American Responses

    American Responses

    Government policies didn't make it easy for Jews to settle in America. Thousands of Jews traveled by ship to Cuba and the Jews being unaware that Cuba revoked their landing certificates. This forcing them to return to Europe and have many of them killed.