The Holocaust - Megan By MG3191 Mar 31, 1932 Presidential election under Weimar Republic in Germany gives 30.1 percent of the vote to Adolf Hitler Jul 31, 1932 German national elections for delegates to the Reichstag (Parliament) result in Nazis attaining 230 seats or 38 percent Jan 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancelor of Germany Apr 1, 1933 Boycott of jewish buisnesses Jan 1, 1934 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad Aug 2, 1934 Hitler proclaims himself Leader and Reich Chancellor Oct 1, 1934 First major wave of arrests of homosexuals occurs throughout Germany, continuing into November May 31, 1935 Jews baarred from serving in the german armed forces Nov 15, 1935 Germany defines a "Jew" Mar 3, 1936 Jewish doctors barred from practicing in german institutions Mar 7, 1936 Germans march into Rhineland Jul 15, 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp opens Nov 16, 1937 Jews can obtain passports for travel outside of Germany only in special cases May 1, 1938 Flossenburge consemtration camp opens Nov 15, 1938 All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools May 18, 1939 Ravensbruck concentration camp opens Sep 1, 1939 Begining of WWII Apr 9, 1940 Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway Sep 20, 1940 Breendonck concentration camp opens in Belgium Feb 1, 1941 German authorities begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Jul 22, 1942 Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp Summer Deportation Oct 4, 1942 All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz Apr 19, 1943 16 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps Jun 1, 1943 The Nazis order all of the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union destroyed Mar 19, 1944 Germany occupies hungry Jul 20, 1944 Group of German Officers try to assassinate Hitler Apr 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck. Sep 2, 1945 End of WWII
