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The Nazis rise to power after Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany, in January. The Nazis used organized terror against political opposers and enemies of the regime, starting a spread of concentration camps for both political and enemy prisoners. -
Hitler gains dictatorship. -
The Nazi government used Anti-Jewish posters and news to make Jews seem like an inferior race, thus making Jews the enemy of the Germans. New laws were made prohibiting Jews from doing a number of normal things, such as attending school, and even cutting Jewish access to several buildings and jobs. -
Many Jews fled Germany in hopes of reaching better and safer countries, due to the situation in Germany, added to the pressure of emigrating and increased the emigrant amount and several organizations offered help to them, by the end of the 1930s emigration had become a policy of the Nazi's and Jews became expelled from their home land. -
1938 had a horrifying radicalization of the anti-Jewish policy of the Nazi regime. By October of 1938, 17,000 Jews were deported from Germany. -
Following the occupation, the
Jews of France, the Netherlands, and other countries were subjected to
discriminatory legislation that revoked their citizenship and banished them
from economic life.
Consequently, the Jews had to reorganize themselves separately
in order to function as a self-sufficient group. In the course of time, the
Jews in these countries, like those in Germany itself -
Jews of Central and Western Europe felt they were a huge part of society yet, the Nazis created a society where Jews were cut off, Jews were often humiliated, and death camps were made. -
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World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war lasted for six painful years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. -
The Invasion of Poland, was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the beginning of World War II. -
Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) chief Reinhard Heydrich convenes the Wannsee Conference in a villa outside Berlin. There he presents plans to coordinate a European-wide “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” to key officials from the German State and the Nazi Party. -
Virtually all Italian Holocaust victims died in Auschwitz-Birkenau. October 21-23. German authorities kill the remaining 3,000-6,000 Jews -
Adolf Hitler put an end to his life in the Chancellery by his own hand, ending his evil grasp. -
Now that the Nazi rule was over Jews were safe to return back to society, however, some people disagreed with this and still supported Hitler even after his end. -
After the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, and the Second World War came to an end. The war cost the lives of more than 330,000 American soldiers. Many more were permanently injured or maimed.