The Holocaust

Beginning of Holocaust

1933

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany

Boycott of Jewish-owned businesses

Apr 1, 1933

The used the government to exclude Jews from German society

Hitler raises his power

Aug 2, 1934

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

"Nuremberg Laws"

Sep 15, 1935

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

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

Nov 9, 1938

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)

Beginning of WWII

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Allied invasion at Normandy

Japan Surrenders

Sep 2, 1945

WWII ends