The Holocaust in the framework of the Interwar period and the WWII

By Carrillo_09
  • Period: to

    1933

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

    Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire Decree

    Reichstag Fire Decree

    It supposed the declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties
  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened

    Dachau Concentration Camp opened

  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act

    Adolf Hitler was given all the powers over German political system
  • First boycotts of Jewish businesses

    First boycotts of Jewish businesses

  • Approval of Civil Service Law

    Approval of Civil Service Law

    It removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs
  • Approval of the Education Law

    Approval of the Education Law

    It stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools
  • Approval of the Sterilization Law

    Approval of the Sterilization Law

    It allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children
  • Approval of the Press Censorship Law

    Approval of the Press Censorship Law

  • Period: to

    1934

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

    Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

  • Period: to

    1935

  • Approval of the mandatory military service

    Approval of the mandatory military service

  • Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization

    Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”

    Being excluded of being accounted as German population
  • Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

    Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

  • Period: to

    1936

  • Period: to

    1937

  • Period: to

    1938

  • Annexation of Austria

    Annexation of Austria

  • Jewish Name Law

    Jewish Name Law

    It forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women
  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

    Sudetenland, ceded to Germany

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany

    Polish Jews deported from Germany

  • Period: to

    Kristallnacht

  • Period: to

    1939

  • Primo Levi graduated in Chemistry at the University of Turin and started working in a chemical factory.

    Primo Levi graduated in Chemistry at the University of Turin and started working in a chemical factory.

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

    Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

    German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II

    Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”

    Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”

    It would cause 250,000 deaths
  • Period: to

    1940

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

    Germany invaded Norway and Denmark

  • Germany invaded Western Europe

    Germany invaded Western Europe

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France

    Italy declared war on Britain and France

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

    First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz

  • Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definitely formed

    Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definitely formed

  • Period: to

    1941

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

    Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

    Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

  • Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

    Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.

    Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno.

    Mass murder began at Chelmno.

    The first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.
  • Period: to

    1942

  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference

    Approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).
  • Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”.

    Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”.

    Name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.
  • Allied forces invaded North Africa.

    Allied forces invaded North Africa.

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

    Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

  • Period: to

    1943

  • Primo Levi joins a group of anti-fascist partisans and works in resistance activities against the Italian fascist regime.

    Primo Levi joins a group of anti-fascist partisans and works in resistance activities against the Italian fascist regime.

  • German defeat at Stalingrad.

    German defeat at Stalingrad.

  • First transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

    First transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

    Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

    Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

  • Surrender of Italy.

    Surrender of Italy.

  • Period: to

    1944

  • Primo Levi is arrested by fascist forces and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

    Primo Levi is arrested by fascist forces and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

  • Germany occupied Hungary.

    Germany occupied Hungary.

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings.

    Beginning of the Normandy landings.

  • Period: to

    1945

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

    Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

  • Primo Levi is freed by the Red Army and returns to Italy.

    Primo Levi is freed by the Red Army and returns to Italy.

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.

    Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.

  • Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.

    Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.