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The Holocaust
The killing of more than 6 million Jews during World War II. -
Nazi sets up first concentration camp
Nazi sets up the first concentration camp in Dachau, Germany for the elimination of Jews. -
German boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
Germany's first offense towards the Jewish; this left many Jewish businesses in poverty. -
Nuremburg Laws of 1935 were passed
Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, many Jews had their citizenship rights taken away, becoming favorable victims for stigmatization and persecution. -
Kristallnacht
On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazi police broke into Jewish homes and shops, brutalized innocent Jewish families, and sent tens of thousands of Jews to concentraion camps. -
Gemany invades the Jewish country of Poland
Germany invades Poland, capturing over 3.35 million Jews; this also began World War II. -
Action T4
Action T4 developed the "euthanasia program": Nazi Germany's first program of mass murder. -
Germany expands empire, ruining Jews
German forces expanded Hitler's empire, conquering six European countries. Thus, hundreads of thousands of Jews and Gypsies from those countries were brought, by Nazis military, to Polish ghettoes. -
Mobile killing units are used by Nazi to kill Jews
Nazi invents mobile killing units; they use them to kill Jews held in Polish ghettos and concentration camps. -
The "Final Solution" begins
The "Final Solution" was Nazi's plan to annihlate the Jewish race. -
The first mass gassings begins
The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec. -
300,000 people deported from Warsaw
300,000 people were deported from Warsaw to concentration camps held by German forces. -
Auschwitz Concentration Camp has killed more than two million people
In Poland, more than two million people were killed in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp since Action T4; 12,000 Jews were killed every day. -
First closings of Concentration Camps
Due to the rise of the Allied Powers, concentration camps far from Germany and Poland were closed; all Jews held at those camps were transported to concentrartion camps in Germany and Poland. -
German empire evacuate concentration camps
Because the Allied powers were striking back at the Nazi, German forces began evacuating concentration camps; their evacuations were known as "death marches"; 250,000-375,000 people died in those marches. -
Germany surrenders to Allied Powers, ending the Holocaust
The German Nazi empire surrenders to Allied Powers, ending World War II and the Holocaust. Jews that survived from all concentration camps were released, and the Allied Powers held the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-1946, which brought great horror to Nazi atrocities.
