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

By al036919
  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

    Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • Reichstag Fire Decree

    Reichstag Fire Decree

    Declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.
  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened

    Dachau Concentration Camp opened

  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act

  • 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

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

    Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”

  • 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”

    Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”

    They were excluded of being accounted as German population.
  • Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

    Approval of the Laws of Nuremberg

  • 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

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

    Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression

    German-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression

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

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

    It would cause 250,000 deaths.
  • Germany invaded Poland

    Germany invaded Poland

    Beginning of the World War II.
  • 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 is definteliy formed

    Axis alliance is definteliy formed

    Germany, Italy and Japan.
  • 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 entered into the World War II

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

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno

    Mass murder began at Chelmno

    It was the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.
  • 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

  • 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

  • Germany occupied Hungary

    Germany occupied Hungary

  • Alessandra's arrest

    Alessandra's arrest

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings

    Beginning of the Normandy landings

  • Alessandra's liberation

    Alessandra's liberation

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

    Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops

    Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops

  • Surrender of Germany.

    Surrender of Germany.

    End of the World War II in Europe.
  • Alessandra reunites with her family

    Alessandra reunites with her family