The Holocaust Timeline

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  • Treaty of Versailles

    The Treaty of Versailles reduced Germany's borders and gave them a debt of 66 billion Marks. It's armed forces were downgraded, the German army had no air force and no navy, and no tanks or artillery.

  • Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf was a book that Hitler issued out to the Germany people talking about how he felt about the first world war and his views on Jews.

  • The Nuremburg Laws

    The Nuremburg laws had German Jews stripped of their citizenship and forced them to present their Jewish religion by wearing stars saying 'Jude' German for Jew. The Nuremburg laws also forbade Jews to marry non-Jews

  • Nazi Raids

    In 1938 the German police conducted raids on Jewish establishments, businesses, and houses. Hitler claimed that these attacks were spontaneous.

  • Invasion of Poland

    Germany invaded Poland on the 1st of September using a entirely new tactic of Blitzkrieg. Poland was taken over by Germany and Russia in one month, with both countries taking half of Poland.

  • Creation of the Ghetto

    The Ghetto in Poland was first established in Piotrków Trybunalski a city located south west of Warsaw. Once Warsaw was overtaken a larger Ghetto was established, like what had happened in Germany the Polish Jews had to wear Stars and were stripped of their rights and forced into the Ghettos.

  • The Final Solution

    With Germany having no resistance from the French and only engaging in dogfights in the air with the British, the only fronts that Germany was facing was down in Africa and the invasion of The Soviet Union. Germany needed resources, so Hitler ordered the Clearing of hundreds of Ghettos spread across eastern and western Europe, and put the Jews into concentration camps.

  • Liberation of the Concentration Camps

    As Nazis was forced back into Germany, the allied forces encountered hundreds of concentration camps of Jewish, Germans and French, and allied POWs. All of the camps were found and destroyed by 1945.

  • Consequences of Liberation

    Because nearly all of Europe's Jewish population had been either killed or imprisoned on concentration camps, they had to be kept in the concentration camps until the allies could rehouse them in refugee camps. The Jews had also lost all their life possessions so they had nearly no way of rebuilding their old life.