Holocaust Timeline

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    On jan. 30 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. He took over germany after the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
  • Dachau Opened

    The first concentration camp was opend in Dachau. It was opened in march of 1933. Heinrich Himmler was the leader of this camp. In the beginning, the camp was mostly communists. As time went on, it began taking and extermanating more and more Jews.
  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Germans didn't buy anything form the Jews, so they can put them out of busness, and protect the pure bloods.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    A series of laws that came out to hurt the jewish population. It was put in place to "protect" the pure blood german population.
  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    The night of the broken glass was the cullmanation of the Nurenberg Laws. German citizens went around buring jewish property, and religious centers. Along with this, 100's of jews were arrested and killed.
  • Germany invades Poland

    In September 1939, the German army occupied the western half of Poland. This
  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp Established

    Auschwitz camp was established. Many people were killed tortured, and worked to death. Mass experementation also took place here.
  • “Final Solution” begins

    Hitler oarders to kill all jews in his "final solution'
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Auschwitz was librated by soviet troops.