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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party. Hitlers rise to promienence was due to the German people's frustration with poor economic conditions and they were still recovering from the defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty. he had a way with talking to the people and having the people believe him. This was the start of the communist party taking control in Europe. -
First concentration camp opened
The first concentration camp opened was called Dachau located outside of Munich. Police in the surrounding towns acknowledged the concentration camp as a camp for political prisoners. The camp was originally designed for holding German political prisoners and Jews, but in 1935 it also began to hold ordinary criminals. All the prisoners wore different colored labels to represent why they were there. This was the camp that gave ideas for more camps and different ways to prosecute the prisoners. -
Jewish persecution
This was the beginning of public jewish persecution. An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance. This prevented them from having access to being healthy and punished them without taking them to a concentration camp. At New York’s Madison Square Garden, thousands attend a pro-Nazi rally sponsored by the German-American Bund. This picture shows german jews being led off by Nazi leaders. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that:
Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens.
Jews cannot marry non-Jews.
Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews -
Kristallnacht
Also referred to as the night of broken glass, This was a night of extreme violence.
Approximately 100 Jews were murdered,
20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the
Windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed. -
Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the German concentration camps. -
"Final solution"
The final solution was the term used to describe the nazi plan to get rid of the jewish population. Reinhard Heydrich was the one who chose to implement this plan. This has been a buildup of discrematory acts for the past decade. They used methods of gas chambers or shootings to exterminate the jewish population. Approximently 6 million jews were killed. That equalled two thirds of the jews living in Europe. This plan led to the creation of death camps just a few months after this plan, -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was when the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews. Police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps. The Germans murdered more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations. The German authorities granted only 35,000 Jews permission to remain in the ghetto, while more than 20,000 Jews remained in the ghetto in hiding. -
Death marches
he evacuations of the concentration camps had three purposes:
(1) SS authorities did not want prisoners to fall into enemy hands alive to tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators
(2) the SS thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible
(3) some SS leaders believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the nazi regime. -
Hitler commits suicide
After Hitler was faced with impeading defeat, he shot himself in his bunker. By May 7th, Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over. The allies had invaded the country and uncovered the horrors that had been occuring for the past decade. November 20th the Nuremberg war trial began. The surviving nazi leaders were out on trial for the horrid crimes they had commited against the Jews and any other person they had discriminated against.
