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Holocaust Timeline
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Book Burning
40,000 people help to burn over 25.000 books that were deemed "un-German" which aided in censorship and cultural control in order to purify the literature in Germany. They burned Jewish works, certain books about social justice, and books they deemed to have immoral views. -
Hitler Abolishes the Office of the President
After he became the president of Germany, he abolishes the office of president. He does this so that he can become fiihrer of the German Reich which means he has no constitutional or legal limits or bounds, he is now the absolute dictator and can do whatever he pleases to do. -
Revision of Paragraph 175
The paragraph 175 is the criminal code for Germany. He revises this so that it is now a criminal offence for men to make any gesture, touch, or comment that signals that they are engaging in homosexual intent. This was a part of purifying the German race into what he wanted it to be. -
Olympic Games Open In Berlin
This was attended by people all over the world. They used this as propaganda to distract and deceive German citizens and countries that came to the Olympics. They tried to make Germany look very respectable and diverse. They removed any anti-Jewish signs, allowed Jewish and other races they deemed un-pure in the Olympics, and temporally lifted the ban on homosexuals. -
Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens
This was a camp that was opened for males. It was one of the largest camps established within German borders. They were guarded with barbed wire fences, watch towers, and machine guns. At first it was just political prisoners, but in 1938 ten thousand Jews were sent here and tortured with cruel treatment in which many died. They would hang prisoners in crematories or shoot them. -
Anti-Jewish laws in Hungary
They reversed the equal citizenship of Jews that they had enjoyed since 1867. They modeled their laws after the German anti-Jew laws. They could not have intermarriage with non-Jewish people, they were excluded from many professions, and were now deemed a race rather then religion. -
German Jews Passports Deemed Invalid
Any Jew with a German passport now has a invalid passport. They have to surrender them, and the only way they will once again be valid is if they have the letter J stamped onto them so that they can be identified as a Jew. Their aim was to identify the Jewish people in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the German population. All Jews that had non-Jewish names were forced to add "israel" or "sara" to their name as another form of identification. -
First Kindertransport Arrives in Great Britan
Thousands of Jewish parents started sending their kids by themselves to other countries in hopes that they would be safe from Nazis. 9,000 to 10,000 children were saved and put into orphanages, they would never see their parents again though since a majority were killed by Nazis.
