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Key Dates of the Holocaust
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Hitler's Election
Hitler is elected chancellor following years of economic failure and promises safety and job oppurtunities. -
Reichstag Fire
Germany's parliment mysteriously burns down, and Hitler raises a conspiracy holding Jews responsible. -
Dachau Concentration Camp
Dachau is the first of the prison camps to be opened during the Holocaust. It housed only a few thousand Jews, mainly those accused by Hitler of a conspiracy to bring down the German government. -
Nuremburg Laws
Laws are passed which ultimately strip Jews of German citizenship and their rights. They are banned from many professional occupations which they may have once had. -
Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass)
On this night, thousands of Jewish houses, shops, synagogues, are smashed by non-Jewish civilians and an estimated 91 Jewish civillians murdered. Over 1,000 synagogues are burnt and some 7,000 Jewish businisses destroyed. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany invades Poland, forcing the several million Jewish citizens to live in Ghettos and wear the Star of David so they a recognisable and can be mocked in the street by an anti-Semitic crowd. -
SS Einsatzgruppen Attack
Hitlers elite troops are send to eastern europe under orders to terrorise Jews. Thousands are shot in badly coordinated massacres and lead to Germans troops commiting suicide, giving birth to the idea of murdering Jews by gassing them in concentration camps. -
Final Solution- Wannsee Conference
Hitler along with other politians, devise a 'final solution' to the Jewish problem- organising execution camps such as Auschwitz to execute large numbers of Jews.
