The Halocaust

By angellepetty

  • Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

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

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

  • "Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

    "Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag

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

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

  • Buchenwald concentration camp opens

    Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • 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 (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)

    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 (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)

  • Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star

    Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star

  • Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

    Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

  • Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943

    Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943

  • Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered

    Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered

  • Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. On May 16, 1943, SS and Police Chief Jurgen Stroop proclaimed, "180 Jews, bandits, and subhumans were destroyed. The Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no more."

    Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. On May 16, 1943, SS and Police Chief Jurgen Stroop proclaimed, "180 Jews, bandits, and subhumans were destroyed. The Jewish quarter of Warsaw is no more."

  • Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria

    Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria

  • Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

    Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march