The Holocaust By scott1217 Mar 22, 1933 The SS opens Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Ravensbruck concentration camps Period: Mar 22, 1933 to Sep 15, 1947 The Beginning to End Mar 24, 1933 German parliement passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers Apr 11, 1933 Nazis issue a decree defining non-aryans, especially targeting Jews Jul 22, 1934 Jews prohibited from getting legal qualifications Aug 2, 1934 Hitler becomes the Fuher Aug 19, 1934 HItler receives 90% vote approving his new powers Sep 15, 1935 Nuremberg race laws against Jews decreed Feb 11, 1936 German Gestapo placed above the law Jun 17, 1936 Heinrich Himmler is appointed as head of German police Nov 8, 1937 Jews ridiculed by eternal Jew exhibition Mar 12, 1938 Nazi troops enter Austria Mar 23, 1938 Himmler establishes Mauthausen camp Aug 11, 1938 Synagog burned in Nuremberg Oct 28, 1938 Nazi troops arrest and force 17 000 jews back to poland Jan 30, 1939 Hitler threatens jews during reichstag speech Mar 15, 1939 Nazi troops sieze Czechoslovakia Sep 1, 1939 Nazis invade Poland jewish population of 3.35 million Sep 3, 1939 France and Great Britain declare war on Germany Sep 17, 1939 Soviet troops invade eastern Poland Oct 12, 1939 Evacuation of Jews from Vienna Jan 25, 1940 Auschwitz near Krakow is chosen for the site of the new camp Apr 9, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark and Norway May 1, 1940 Rudolf Hoss appointed as kommandant at Auschwitz May 10, 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Holland and Luxemberg Oct 7, 1940 Nazis invade Romania Mar 1, 1941 Himmler makes his first visit to Auschwitz ordering a massive expansion Mar 2, 1941 Nazis occupy Bulgaria Mar 7, 1941 German Jews forced into labor Mar 26, 1941 SS murder squads sent to Poland Dec 8, 1941 First gassing victims included 5000 gypsies Jan 5, 1942 Mass killing of Jews at Auschwitz begins Mar 24, 1942 Deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz Mar 27, 1942 Deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz Mar 30, 1942 First trainloads of Jews arrive at Auschwitz May 27, 1942 Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational Jun 30, 1942 Second gas chamber is formed at Auschwitz Jul 7, 1942 Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz Jul 14, 1942 Deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz Aug 5, 1942 Deportation of Croatian Jews to Auschwitz Oct 5, 1942 All Jews in Germany ordered to be sent to Auschwitz Dec 27, 1942 Experiments on women at Birkenau begin Jan 29, 1943 All gypsies are ordered to be exterminated Mar 22, 1943 Gas chambers IV, V are built at Auschwitz May 9, 1943 Hoss returns to Auschwitz to oversee extermination of hungarian Jews May 19, 1943 Nazis declare Berlin cleansed of Jews Aug 27, 1943 Exterminations cease in Treblinka, estimated deaths at 870 000 Nov 3, 1943 Operation harvest festival carried out, 42 000 jews killed Dec 2, 1943 First transport of Jews from Vienna arrive at Auschwitz Jul 24, 1944 Russian troops liberate the Majdanek extermination camp Oct 30, 1944 Last time the gas chambers at Auschwitz are used Jan 18, 1945 Nazis evacuate 66 000 from Auschwitz Jan 27, 1945 Russian troops liberate Auschwitz Apr 15, 1945 40 000 prisoners freed by the British at Bergen-Belsen Apr 30, 1945 American troops free 30 000 prisoners at various camps Sep 15, 1947 Twenty one former SS leaders go on trial at Nuremberg
