Holocaust Timeline - Alex Nordstrom

Citizenship

Feb 25, 1932

Adolf Hitler gets german citizenship

Hitler Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany

Concentration camps

Mar 22, 1933

The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany

Jewish shops boycotted

Apr 1, 1933

German citizens are told not to buy goods from Jewish stores or buisnesses

Jews (Undesirables) sent to the camps

Nov 24, 1933

The Homeless, alcholics, and unemplyed Jewish people were sent to the concentration camps

Persecution

May 17, 1934

Jewish people were denied health insurance

Nuremberg Laws

Sep 15, 1934

The Nuremberg Laws are passed saying that Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens, Jews cannot marry non-Jews, Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews

Jews banned from serving the military

May 21, 1935

Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

Nazis force more laws on the Jews

Aug 6, 1935

Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.

The German Gestapo

Feb 10, 1936

The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

Rhineland

Mar 7, 1936

Nazis occupy the Rhineland.

Jews are banned from many professional occupations

Jan 1, 1937

Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.

Buchenwald

Jul 15, 1937

Buchenwald concentration camp is opened

'Eternal Jew'

Nov 8, 1937

'Eternal Jew' traveling exhibition opens in Munich.

Wealth and Property of the Jews

Apr 26, 1938

Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.

Synagogue

Aug 11, 1938

Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.

Precious Metals

Feb 21, 1939

Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.

Government jobs

Jul 4, 1939

German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.

Poland

Feb 12, 1940

First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.

Romania

Oct 7, 1940

Nazis invade Romania

Labor

Mar 7, 1941

German Jews ordered into forced labor.

Betraying Russia

Jun 22, 1941

Nazis invade Russia

transportation

Apr 20, 1942

German Jews are banned from using public transportation.

Stalingrad

Aug 23, 1942

Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.

Jewish Resistance

Jan 18, 1943

First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Greek Jews

Feb 1, 1943

Greek Jews are ordered into ghettos.

Rome

Oct 16, 1943

Jews in Rome rounded up, with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz.

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.

Last of the gas chambers

Oct 30, 1944

Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

Russia pushes to Berlin

Apr 23, 1945

Berlin is reached by Russian troops.

Hitler's suicide

Apr 30, 1945

Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.