Holocaust Timeline

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

    Anxious to create a stable government, the elderly President Hindenburg agreed to name Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of Germany.
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    Holocaust Timeline

  • Dachau Opened

    Dachau was the first German concentration camp and it opened in early March, very shortly after Hitler became Chancellor.
  • Boycott Jewish Businesses

    Nazis began to boycott Jewish Businesses after Hitler accused them of hoarding money, causng Germany to lose the war.
  • Nurember Laws

    The German government announced new laws detailing "Identification Criteria" for the jews in order to "protect the German blood."
  • Kristallnacht/ Night of Broken Glass

    planned overnight attacks on Jewish businesses, syngogues cemeteries in response to a German political figure being murdered by an alleged jewish teenager.
  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland, marking the beginning of World War 2 in Europe.
  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp Established

    The biggest and most well known concentration camp is opened. Hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, Homosexuals, and other minorities were murdered there.
  • "Final Solution" Begins

    The Nazis fully begin their campaign of genocide to exterminate all people of Jewish faith.
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    The Soviet Army reached Auschwitz and liberated the remaining prisoners. The beginning of the end for the Nazi Party in Germany.