The Holocaust

  • President Hidenburg makes Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany.

  • The Goverment takes away freedom of speech.

  • First concentration camps held political enemies.

  • Jews are fired from all jobs.

  • Germany leaves The League of Nations.

  • Hitler declares himself president of the Third Reich after Hindenburg's death

  • First big wave of arrest of homosexuals.

  • End of the first big wave of arrest of homosexuals.

  • No Jew signs put up in towns restaurants ect.

  • Olympic Games take place in Berlin. Anti Jew signs taken down until Games end.

  • Olympics games end signs put back up

  • Bunchenwald concentration camp opens.

  • Government says Jews must carry identification cards.

  • Nazi's burn 100's of synagogues, Jews beaten and killed and put in concentration camps.

  • Germany invades Poland, WW II starts.

  • Hitler extends power to doctors to kill the mentally and phisically disabled.

  • Germany invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and France.

  • About 164,000 Polish Jews put and imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto

  • Anti Jew laws passed by France Goverment.

  • Romania passed law for forced work by adult Jews

  • Germany invades Soviet Union. Mass killings of Jews, Gypsies, and communist leaders

  • Jew age 6 and up wear a Star Of David on their clothes with Jude written in black

  • 34,00 Jews murdered by mobile killing squads near Keiv, Ukraine

  • Germany declares war on U.S.

  • Nazi extermination camps start mass murders of Jew by killing them with gas thru the whole year

  • Nazi and Goverment leaders discuss the final solution of Jews

  • Treblinka death camp opens

  • All Jews in concentration camps sent to death camps.

  • Nazi's order ghettos in Poland and Soviet Union demolished

  • During the fall Danish citizens smuggle Jews to Sweden

  • Nazi's deport Jews from Hungary. 430,000 Jews mostly killed by being gassed

  • Allied powers invade Normandy

  • German officers attemp and fail to kill Hitler

  • Hitler Commits suicide

  • Germany surrenders war in Europe ends