Holocaust

Holocaust 1928-1945

  • Elections for Nazi Party

  • Great Depression starts

  • Sedond Nazi Party elections

  • Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000

    Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000
  • German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.

  • Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.

  • Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.

  • Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.

  • Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.

  • Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler

  • Germany defines a "Jew"

    anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
  • Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions

  • Buchenwald concentration camp opens.

  • Flossenburg concentration camp opens.

  • Kristallnacht

  • Kristallnacht

  • Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands

  • All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools

  • First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow

  • France surrenders

  • Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people.

  • Germany invades the Soviet Union

  • United States declares war on Japan and Germany

  • Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler

  • Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

  • Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck

  • Japan surrenders; end of World War II