WWII and HOLOCAUST

By izanzm
  • Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.

    Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.

  • Dachau Concentration Camp opened.

    Dachau Concentration Camp opened.

  • Enabling Act.

    Enabling Act.

  • first boycotts of Jewish businesses.

    first boycotts of Jewish businesses.

  • Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.

    Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.

  • Approval of the Education Law: it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.

    Approval of the Education Law: it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.

  • Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.

    Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.

  • Approval of the Press Censorship Law.

    Approval of the Press Censorship Law.

  • Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”.

    Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”.

  • Approval of the mandatory military service.

    Approval of the mandatory military service.

  • Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.

    Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.

    Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.

  • approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.

    approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.

  • Annexation of Austria.

    Annexation of Austria.

  • Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.

    Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.

  • Sudetenland, ceded to Germany.

    Sudetenland, ceded to Germany.

  • Polish Jews deported from Germany.

    Polish Jews deported from Germany.

  • Kristallnac

    Kristallnac

  • Germany annexed Czechoht.slovakia.

    Germany annexed Czechoht.slovakia.

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression.

    German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression.

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.

    Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.

  • Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.

    Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.

  • Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.

    Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.

  • Germany invaded Western Europe.

    Germany invaded Western Europe.

  • Italy declared war on Britain and France.

    Italy declared war on Britain and France.

  • First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.

    First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.

  • Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

    Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.

  • Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.

    Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece.

  • Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

    Germany invaded the Soviet Union.

  • Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

    Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.

  • Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA entered into the World War II.

    Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA entered into the World War II.

  • Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.

    Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.

  • Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).

    Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).

  • Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

    Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.

  • Allied forces invaded North Africa.

    Allied forces invaded North Africa.

  • Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

    Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.

  • German defeat at Stalingrad.

    German defeat at Stalingrad.

  • first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

    first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz.

  • Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

    Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.

  • Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

    Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.

  • Surrender of Italy.

    Surrender of Italy.

  • Germany occupied Hungary.

    Germany occupied Hungary.

  • Beginning of the Normandy landings.

    Beginning of the Normandy landings.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

    Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

  • Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.

    Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.

  • Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.

    Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.