The Holocaust - To what extent can the pursuit of ultranationalism lead to crimes against humanity?
By Alex_Nerbas
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The beginning of WW2
Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of germany a nation with a jewish population of 566,000. Hitler rose to power and believed that the final solution was to exterminate the jewish population -
February 27th
On February 27th 1933 the German parliment building burned down due to arson. The coaliton government blamed the communists for the propaganda maneuvar. The impact of propaganda and terror on existing fears of communist takeover convinced many germans that hitler's decisive action had savesd from the nation of "bolshevism" -
First concentration camp
The first concentration camp is established in Dachau, near Munich. Political opponents of the new regime make up the first inmates. During the first year alone the first concentration camp heald approximat;y 48 -
March 5th
Adolf Hitler listens to a radio broadcast of the results of German parliamentary elections. The Nazi Party wins 43.9%, the Nationalists (DNVP) 8%, for a majority between them; after the Communist deputies are arrested or forced underground the Nazis themselves have a majority. Also on this date and ollowing, German radio is purged and broadcasters replaced by Nazis. following, German radio is purged and broadcasters replaced by Nazis. -
1934
Control of concentration camps were taken over by the SS. In August of 1934 Hitler proclaims himself Fuehrer the Third Riech following the death of Riech president Von Hindenburg. -
1935
German gypsies are arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp. The concentration camp of Sachsenhausen is established. In August The Olympic Games are held in Berlin. Anti-Semitic signs have been removed in advance. Germany fields one Jewish athlete, Helene Mayer. When October came around Non-Aryan’ teachers are prohibited from teaching in public schools. -
The Holocaust.1941-1945
Germany begins its war of extermination against the Soviet Union. Mass executions of Jews and communists. So-called Einsatzgruppen from the SS are responsible for most of the killings, together with local collaborators. -
December, 1941
Mass killings of Jews with the use of exhaust fumes are initiated in the extermination camp Chelmno. On December 11th, 1941, Germany declairs war on the United States. -
The first gas chamber,
The killing of Jews in gas chambers is begun at the extermination camp Belzec. -
October, 1943
Approximately 7,500 Danish Jews escape to Sweden, only a few are captured by the Nazis. -
October, 1944
The Nazis order that all crematoria and gas chambers be blown up. All traces of their horrible crime are to disappear. -
March and May
Germany invades its former ally, Hungary. By May of 1943; 440,000 Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and gassed to death. A total of 550,000 Hungarian Jews perish. -
Gypsy camp
The ‘gypsy camp’ in Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated. All 6,000 gypsies are gassed to death. -
March-October
Hundreds of thousands of Jews are sent from ghettos in Poland and Czechoslovakia to the extermination camps at Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek, and gassed to death. -
Near the end
The Nazis evacuate Auschwitz and send the prisoners marching to Germany, to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. -
The end of the holocaust
Germany surrenders
