Jack's Holocaust Timeline

By Jackalope

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Lose Land,
    Lose military,
    and pay back money to winners

  • Hyperinflation

    price of bread in Germany in 1923

  • Beer Hall Putsch

    Hitler attempts to overthrow the German government when someone called the military. This was happening during the Hyperinflation
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    The Republic of Germany

    German has a republic style government

  • Reichstag Fire

    Hitler blamed Communists for the fire

  • Enabling Act of March

    gives power to Hitler. Within a few months, all other political parties besides the Nazis were eliminated. This allowed Hitler to get rid of all his rivals. At this time, we see an official boycott of Jewish buiness as well.

  • First concentration camp set up

    Early on the camps were for imprisonment and hard labor, not for killing. The Nazis actually targeted the Political group before the Jewish people. The majority of the first people put in concentration camps were communist which the Nazis did not like. 188,000 people were thought to be held at the Dachau concentration camp.
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    Holocaust

    Hitler and the Nazi's kill millions of people including children handi capped people and people with certain religions because they didn't like them. One of the main religions that the Nazi's killed were the Jewish people.

  • Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany

    Hitler was German. He wanted to kill all the Jewish people because of their religion. Hitler was able to persuade Germany because he told them what they wanted. He eliminated political rivals to be head of Nazi's. Since he rose the popularity of the Nazi's, which forces Hindenburg to give him some power.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nazis needed a way to identify Jews so they could discriminate them. Nuremberg Laws defined people with 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents as " Jewish" and 1 or 2 as " Mixed Blood."

  • Kristallnacht

    The Night of Broken Glass. During this time 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted. Dozens of Jewish people were killed

  • Euthanasia Program Begins

    Eventually 80,000 people with disabilities will be killed
    Euthanasia- systematic killing of those Germans whom the Nazis deemed " unworthy of life" because of mental illness or physical disability

  • Germany invades Poland

    World War 2 begins. They attacked Poland which has 3 million Jews in its population. Hitler" A World War will result in the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe."

  • Ghetto's

    Nazi's began rounding up millions of Jewish people. The largest Ghetto were in cities like Warsaw or Lodz in Poland.

  • Non-Violent Resistance

    Instead of fighting, many used non-violent forms of resistance including -Prayer groups
    -Non-compliance
    -Music
    -Art work
    -Schooling

  • First Death Camp

    First Death Camp opens ant Chelmno in Central Poland. Vans with small gas chamber in the rear are used. The gas the Nazis used was Zyklon B. It was first tested in the Auschwitz- Birkenau camp as a use for mass extermination. This would become the preferred method for the Nazis.
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    Einsatzgruppen Mobile Killing Squads or "Action Kommandos"

    As the army advanced into the Soviet Union, these groups would round up Jews from the newly occupied areas and kill them.... Usually by shooting
    The largest mass-killing by Einsatzgruppen on record was at Babi Yar in Ukraine. 33,000 people were killed in just under 2 days

  • Wannsee Conferance Final Solution

    Nazi leaders approve the "FINAL SOLUTION" or plan to EXTERMINATE THE JEWS.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    -Residents smuggled weapons
    -Uprising lasted for about a month
    -SS troops arrested and deported residents after the uprising ended
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    Prisoners fought back at death camps

    After stealing weapons from guards, prisoners tried to escape. Most were killed but a few dozen made it out and survived the war. Members of the Sonderkommando working inn the Crematorium fought SS guards killing over 70, but all 250 as will as 200 others were killed in response
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    Death Marches

    -Allies advancing toward death camps
    -Nazis evacuate prisoners, march them into Germany to avoid capture
    -Brutal treatment and harsh conditions along the way

  • Liberation on Concentration Camps

    The UK and United States came to Germany and freed all of the people in the co concentration camps

  • FREE AT LAST

    Camps throughout Europe are liberated by allied forces

  • Hitler dies

    Hitler commits suicide rather than face capture by the Soviet Red Army Germany surrenders within a week
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    Nuremburg Trials

    The Allies and the International Community put a number of Germans on trial for War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity