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Birth of Hitler
Hitler is born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. -
Start of the Herero Revolt
In 1904, the Herero and Nama people of South-West Africa rose up against the German colonizers in a war of rebellion. -
Herero Revolt
End of the Herero Revolt and
Hitler is rejected from the Academy of Fine Art Vienna -
Another rejection
Hitler was rejected for the second time from the academy -
WW1 begins
Start of WW1 - Hitler served at the age of 24 -
End of WW1
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Adolf Hitler joins the D.A.P.
The D.A.P was a political party. -
Hitler attempts to seize power in Munich
Hitler attempts to seize power in Munich, is arrested and tried for high treason and sentenced to 5 years in prison.
There he writes Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") articulating his campaign against his archenemy, the Jews. He’s out 8 months after. -
Depression
Wall Street crash plunges Germany into depression. Nazi Party steadily rises to power through intimidation and subterfuge. -
Jews killed
8 Jews are killed by storm-troopers. They are the first victims of the Nazi era. -
Hitler
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
The Nazi party is later declared the only legal party in Germany.
Germany passes a law for forced sterilization of those with "genetic defects." Jewish immigrants are stripped of German citizenship.
Jews are banished from law, media and the arts. -
Hitler's rise to power
Death of Hindenberg. Hitler becomes head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. -
Laws against Jews
Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews are decreed, depriving Jews of German citizenship. -
Concentration Camp
Buchenwald concentration camp is opened. -
Japan vs China
Japan invades China proper, initiating the Pacific War that would become a part of World War II. -
Jews abused
All Jewish students are expelled from German schools.
All Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession. -
Auschwitz concentration camp
The Auschwitz concentration camp was created to house the mass number of jews that were affected during the Holocaust. Over 1.1 million Jews died here. -
Killings
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. -
Killings
Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev. -
WW2 ends
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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The UN
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide enters into force. -
War ....... again.
April 30 Vietnam war begins. -
Anne Frank
February-people were watching the rise of moves about Anne Frank. Anne Frank's hiding place in Amsterdam was opened to the public. -
Wall
Berlin wall is built. -
Growth
People start learning about the Holocaust in Germany. -
David Irving
David Irving publishes Hitler’s War, saying that Hitler did not order or condemn the Nazi policy of the genocide of Jews. -
Commemoration
The “American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants” is made to commemorate and remember the others who did not make it. -
Rules and Regulations
The Israeli parliament passes a law criminalizing denial of the Holocaust. -
Jean Marie Le Pen
Jean Marie Le Pen (leader of France's far right National Front party) suggests that gas chambers were simply a “detail” of World War II. -
Rules and Regulations
1990 -The French government approves the Gayssot Law, which declares that questioning the scale or existence of crimes against humanity (as defined in the London Charter of 1945) is a criminal offense. This act marks the first European statute explicitly outlawing denial of the Holocaust. Illinois becomes the first American state to mandate teaching about the Holocaust in public schools. -
Rules and Regulations in The Czech Republic
The Czech Republic enacts a law criminalizing Holocaust denial. The law is reenacted in 2009.
