Brennen's WW2 timeline

By bburk11

  • Adolf Hitler becomes leader of Nazi Party

  • Elie Wiesel is born

  • US Stock Market crashes

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

  • First Concentration camp opened near Berlin

  • Kristallnacht

  • Olympics are held in Berlin, Germany

    Summer of 1936

  • Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled

    Summer of 1939

  • Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand declare war on Germany

  • Nazis invade the Netherlands (Holland)

  • Nazis bomb Berlin

  • Nazis order Jews to wear yellow stars

  • Gas chambers used for the first time at Auschwitz

  • Japan bombs Pear Harbor

  • Nazis invade North Africa

  • Elie and his family are deported

    May 1944

  • Allied Forces D-Day Invasion

  • Elie and his father are transferred to Buchenwald

    Early January

  • Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz

  • Elie's father dies in Buchenwald

  • Elie liberated from Buchenwald

  • US drops nuclear bomb on Hiroshima

  • US drops nuclear bomb on Nagasaki

  • End of WW2

  • State of Israel created

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