Schindler's List

  • Hitler Comes into Power

    January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
  • Period: to

    Holocaust

  • Summer Olympics begin in Berlin.

  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

  • Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).

  • Battle of Britain begins.

  • Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.

  • Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.

  • Battle of Kursk.

  • Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.

  • Nazis Surrender