World History Holocaust Timeline

By Talan217216
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    Italy Declares War on Britain and France

    Officially entered WWII on the Axis side.
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    Victims of the Holocaust, Laws put in place in Germany, and Major World Events

  • Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

    German Elections of 1932, Nazi party won 33% of the vote, Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as the new chancellor.

  • Carl von Ossietzky

    He was Arrested for his political views and sent to Sonnenburg and Esterwegen-Papenburg Concentration Camps. He would have probably lost everything. Had no one. Would have lost weight and been beaten. Living in horrible conditions for his view on the world.

  • Reichstag Fire Decree

    Took Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press, and the right to assemble. And the Nazi party could arrest political opponents without cause.

  • Dachau Concetration Camps Open

    First Concentration camp to be opened, was established by the government and originally intended to incarcerate political opponents of the Nazi Party.

  • The Enabling Act

    This Law Enables Hitler to become a Totalitarian Dictator. This is one of the main reasons that people faced persecution in the first place. This ended up shaking the whole planet and is still affecting us today.

  • Carl Gärtig

    Originally Arrested for Publishing and Distributing Anti-Nazi material. He was later released. This may have cause him to lose money because he was not able to work, he may have been beaten in prison. All because he differing opinions.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Nazi Party Launched a one-day Boycott of all Jewish businesses.

  • Civil Service Law

    Removed Jews and Political Opponents from any and all civil service positions.

  • Education Law

    Schools could not have a population consisting of more than 5% being Jews. If there were not enough schools it would mean that not of lot of Jewish people could get a proper education.

  • Burning of "Un-German" Books

    Pro-Nazi university students burned books that contained anti-Nazi ideas and morals.

  • Sterilization Law

    This Law allowed the government to forcibly sterilize anyone with Physical or Mental Disabilities.

  • Press Censorship Law

    This Law Prohibited any Jews from being News Reporters. And also forbid Newspapers to put out any papers that would "Weaken the Strength of the Reich abroad or at home."

  • Law Against "Criminals"

    Government was authorized to hold prisoners indefinitley if they were considered to be a dangerous Habitual criminal. Anyone could be held indefinitely with no cause and no chance of getting out. Probably focused more towards political officers and Nazi opponents.

  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Führer

    German President Paul von Hindenburg died, and with German Military support, Hitler became the new President of Germany along with being the Chancellor, giving him full power over the country.

  • Mandatory Military Service

    A Mandatory Military Draft for all men between the age of 18 and 45. Drafted soldiers had to show evidence that they were "Aryan". Jews were forbidden to serve and Jehovahs witnesses refused to serve.

  • Jehovahs Witness Organization banned

    The Government banned the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Not many people followed this law. This led to more prosecution, but they could be released by signing a form swearing allegiance to Nazi Germany. Not a lot of people did so.

  • The Revision of Paragraph 175

    The German Government revised an already existing Law that banned male Homosexuality. This revision is mostly just defining activities qualified as sexual content and increased the possible punishments.

  • Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor

    This Law Banned the marriage between Jew and non-Jews. It also made sexual relations between these mixed race couples Illegal.

  • Reich Citizenship Law

    This defined Jewish people as a race identified by blood and genealogy, instead of a religion. Under this law they became subjects of the state.

  • Racial Definition Explained

    Defined anyone who had more than two Jewish grandparents as Jewish. Anyone with one or two was considered "Mischling" or mixed race. And German Jews who served in WWI lost their exemption from the April 7th, 1933 laws. They had to retire from civil service jobs by the end of the year.

  • Nuremberg Laws Extended

    Roma, Sinti, and Afro-Germans lost their citizenship and were no longer permitted to marry "Aryan" Germans.

  • Harry Pauly

  • August Alzen

  • Peter Wilhelm Rollmanns

  • Marianne Winter

  • Germany Annexes Austria

    Incorporated Austria into the 3rd Reich.

  • Thomas Doeppner

    He fled Germany knowing that he would be drafted. He left his friends, a lot of his family, his home country, everything. He left the Netherlands and went to finish school in the US in 1940.

  • Evian Conference on Refugees

    An increase in Jewish Refugees led to some meetings about what to do with them, not a lot was done and they were left to their devices.

  • Jewish Name Law

    This Law required Jews that did not have typical Jewish names to take the middle name Israel for men, and Sara for Jews.

  • Sudetenland Ceded to Germany

    Hitler threatened war unless he could annex Sudetenland, no one wanted war, so Britain and France allowed him too. Czechoslovakia was not included in these decisions.

  • Polish Jews Deported

    Nazi Germany Expelled 17,000 Jews from Germany. They were placed in "No-Mans Land" and were later moved to Refugee camps.

  • Kristallnacht Attacks

    A Polish-Jewish boy shot a German Diplomat in Paris. Nazis retaliated and launched a coordinated attack against Jewish owned stores, synagogues, and homes across the Third Reich.

  • Anti-Jewish Economy Law

    This Law Prohibited Jews from owning businesses or engaging in trade.

  • First KinderTransports Arrived

    KinderTransports were efforts to bring Jewish children from Nazi controlled territory.

  • Joseph Berg

  • Stanley Dabrowski

  • Kaus Langer

  • Germany Annexes Czechoslovakia

    After the rest of the country was eventually annexed by either Germany or Hungary.

  • St. Louis Sails

    The only refugee ship to denied by the US. Cuban Gov did not permit them either, sent to France, Belgium, Netherland, and England, 2 thirds of these Jewish people survived the Holocaust.

  • Nazi Soviet Pact

    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a secret pact that stated soviets would assist in supplying Germany and their efforts.

  • Euthanasia Decree/T4 Operation

    Allowed doctors to preform "Mercy Killings", too disabled or "unpure" people.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    German Invasion of Poland (using Blitzkrieg) was a major event that started WWII.

  • Dawid Sierakowiak

  • Wladyslaw Surmacki

  • Germany Invades Norway and Denmark

    Both countries were forced to surrender almost immediately, Germany invaded because of the naval advantages.

  • Germany Invades Western Europe

    Surprise invasion of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. All of these countries surrendered within 6 weeks of the invasion.

  • Axis Alliance Formed

    Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact. Later, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Croatia also signed.

  • Artur Czuczka

  • Sziena Katzenelenboigen

  • Magdalena Kusserow

  • Channah Mazansky-Zaidel

  • Alexander Pechersky

  • Alfred Wodël

  • Roosevelt Signed the Lend Lease Act

    At this time the US was officially neutral, the country supported the Allies. The Lend-Lease Act allowed the U.S. to "lend" food, weapons, and oil, to the Allies. It was clear the U.S. had chosen their side, but at this time they decided to have no. direct influence in the war.

  • Germany Invades Yugoslavia and Greece

    While aligned with Nazi Germany, Yugoslavia refused to allow Germany to pass through their borders to get to Greece. So Germany entirely swept through both countries.

  • Commissar Order

    Authorized and Encouraged German Soldiers to kill Commissars. An order that said the German Military did not. have to follow the international laws of war. In other words it made it legal (in the eyes of the Nazi Party) to commit a war crime.

  • Germany Invades the Soviet Union

    Breaking the non-aggression pact, Germany launched a surprise invasion of the Soviet Union. The U.S. began supplying the Soviet Union through the Lend-Lease Act.

  • Jewish Badges

    Jews were forced to wear some kind of badge or patch that identified them. In Germany it was often a yellow patch shaped like a Star of David.

  • U.S. Officially Enters WWII

    The United States Officially Entered WWII after imposing an economic sanction of Japan and cut off Japans oil supplies. The U.S. Declared war on Japan and officially joined WWII in support of the Allies.

  • Mass Murder at Chelmno

    First Stationary facility where Nazi's used poison gas to kill at least 172,000 people.

  • Isadore Frenkeil

  • Sonia Orlinsky Minuskin

  • Stefan Moise

  • Franz Morawetz

  • Alfred Munzër

  • Isak Saleschutz

  • Fanny Wertheimer Valfer

  • Max Rosenblat

  • Aleksandr Tolupow

  • Gerta Weissmann

  • Wannsee Conference

    A conference where the Nazi Party and other Government Officials discussed the "Final Solution", where they planned to kill all European Jews.

  • The Wansee Conference

    A Conference where Germany and Nazi officials decided how to continue and expand the mass murder of Jews.

  • The Beginning of Operation Reinhard

    Operation Reinhard was code for a plan to murder 2 Million Jews in German Occupied Poland.

  • Operation Reinhard Begins

    A plan to murder 2 million Jews in German occupied Poland.
    Gassing began in The Belzec Killing center on this day.

  • Death Penalty for Aiding Jews

    Helping or Assisting a Jew in anyone was punishable by death. Very few people were willing to help Jewish people after this.

  • Allied Forces Invade North Africa

    Several surprise attacks in North Africa

  • Allied Forces Invade North Africa

    Allied Forces Launched Several Surprise landings on coast of North Africa. In Retaliation, Germany Occupied South France.

  • Allies Condemn Mass Murder

    The Allies all condemned mass murder happening in Germany and all vowed that Germany would receive an equal punishment.

  • The Final Solution was Reported

    America reported these planned killings and along with all allied countries condemned Germany saying that they would suffer the consequences.

  • Fanny Orenbach Aizenburg, Else Frankenstien Blumingstien, Dorthea Diek, Johanna Geretcher, Georg Glücksten

  • Richard Oestermann

  • Ossi Stojka

  • German Defeat at Stalingrad

    German Forces Surrendered after fighting for 7 months.

  • First Transport of Sinti/Roma to Auschwitz

    Approximetly 23,000 Sinti and Roma were transported to Auschwitz and eventually murdered.

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins

    300,000 German Jews were deported and murdered, when the Nazis returned, the Jewish people were armed and fought back but were eventually defeated.

  • Allied Invasion of Sicily

    Canadian, American, and British Forces launch an amphibious and Ariel invasion of Sicily, Italy.

  • Italy Surrenders

    Secret meeting happened between Italy and the Allies, where Italy officially Surrendered.

  • Danish Jews Begin Escape

    On September 28th, the Jewish Danish Community was Warned of Roundups by a German Diplomat.

  • Sobibor Uprising

    An Uprising in a factory that was planned by the worker. 300 German and Ukrainian guards were killed.

  • Anne Frank

  • Alessandra Bucci, Anne Frank

  • Lila Lam

  • Moshe Levin

  • Wilma Shclesinger Mahrer

  • Elie Wiesel

  • War Refugee Board Created by FDR

    Streamlined Humanitarian Aid, Helped Jews Escape, and tried to protect Jews in Nazi Territory

  • Germany Occupies Hungary

    Germany Invaded to keep Hungary from leaving the Axis Powers and Joining the Allies. Hungary had the largest Jewish Population left in Eastern Europe, and after the invasion, German Troops and Hungarian Police started deporting approximately 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz

  • D-Day Invasion

    American, British, and Canadian naval and Air forces invaded the German occupied Normady France.

  • Soviet Troops Liberate Auschwitz

    In mid-January the SS evacuated the nearly 60,000 Prisoners from Auschwitz on foot and in train cars. At least 15,000 people died due to these forced marches into Germany. Soviet Troops found 6,000 Starving and dying prisoners who were left behind.

  • American Troops Liberate Buchenwald

    U.S., British, and Soviet Union all liberated many concentration camps in April and May of 1945. Eisenhower ordered all allied troops to tour the concentration camps so that the holocaust could not be called propaganda.

  • German Forces Surrender

    Soviet Forces Surrounded Berlin, Adolf Hilter committed suicide a few days before Germany Surrendered