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McAndrew & Ashanda

By binks11182

  • the final solution

    the final solution
    Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

  • Leader and Reich Chancellor

    Leader and Reich Chancellor
    Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him

  • final solution

    final solution
    Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.

  • Germans march

    Germans march
    Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty

  • buchenwald

    buchenwald
    Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • kristallnacht

    kristallnacht
    Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps

  • stolen

    stolen
    Germans occupy Czechoslovakia

  • death camps

    death camps
    Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

  • Germany attacks

    Germany attacks
    Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece; occupation follows

  • death camps

    death camps
    Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp

  • evacuation

    evacuation
    Liquidation of Craców ghetto

  • conquer

    conquer
    Germany occupies Hungary

  • revolt

    revolt
    Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up

  • auschwitz

    Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

  • death march

    Beginning of death march for inmates of Stutthof