EXTERMINATION CAMPS

DACHAU

Mar 15, 1933

See how the first concentration camp was made and what type of prisoners it was used for. Don't know the day it was built but month and year is correct

BURNING OF BOOKS

May 10, 1933

Info on the burning of the books in Berlin.

JEWISH RIGHTS

Jul 22, 1934

Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.

KICKED OUT

Oct 28, 1938

Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's Land' near the Polish border for several months.

GAS VANS

Sep 4, 1941

This began with Nazi gas vans, which was packed with carbon monoxide, which suffocated the victims to death. THis was orginally made by the Soviets, and later by the Nazis as a less damaging way to exterminate the Jewish people.

CHELMNO

Dec 7, 1941

Gas vans were mainly used at the camp Chelmno, but were swiftly replaced by the more efficient gas chambers that had been developed.

MASS KILLING

Jan 12, 1942

Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.

MRE GAS

Jun 30, 1942

At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.

FIGHT

Jun 18, 1943

First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.

ESCAPE

Aug 2, 1943

Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.

LAST

Oct 30, 1944

Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

AMERICA FREES

Apr 30, 1945

Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.