Nuremberg Trails

Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

This was the start of the Nazi regime

Pre WW2 and Hitlers rule in Germany

Period: Jan 30, 1933 to Aug 31, 1939

The first concentration camp opens at Dachau

Mar 20, 1933

This camp originally was used for political opponents of the Nazi regime

Nation wide boycott, of jewish businesses in Germany

Apr 1, 1933

All 'non aryan' government employees are fired

Apr 7, 1933

This included jewish civil servants, i.e Teachers and lecturers
This was one of the first steps that led to the mis-treatment of jews

The public rallies across Germany and burns books

May 10, 1933

Books written by Jews as well as political opponents to the Nazi's are burnt. As well as many other books are set alight.

Laws passed in Germany to allow the forced sterilization of certain groups

Jul 14, 1933

The groups included where the Mentally ill, pshyically ill, Gypsies, African-Germans,as well as anybody else deemed to be unfit or inferior.

Several Homosexuals are arrested

Oct 1, 1934

In the first major wave, this continued into November

Citizen and racial laws are announced

Sep 15, 1935

This was the start of the Nuremberg laws, they where announced at an Nazi rally in Nuremberg

German Gypsies are arrested and deported

Jul 12, 1936

The where sent to Dachau concentration camp

The 1936 olympic games begin in Germany

Aug 16, 1936

All public signs of Anti Jewish nature are removed until the games end.

Anschluss

Mar 13, 1938

Germany annexes Austria

Evian Conference

Jul 6, 1938

This took place in Evian, France. Representatives of 32 different countries meet to discuss refugee policy, mainly concering what to do with Jewish refugees, most conturies refuse to let in any more Jewish refugees

Kristallnacht, the night of the broken glass

Nov 9, 1938

Nazi's burn synagouge, raid Jewish homes and businesses, 30000 jewish men are deported to concentration camps.

Jewish Children are expelled from German public schools

Nov 15, 1938

Jewish only schools are set up for the Jewish children

Start of WW2

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades poland.

WW2

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945

Hitler gives power to Doctors to kill Mentally and Phsyically disabled people

Oct 1, 1939

In the Euthansia program

Warsaw Ghetto is created

Oct 1, 1940

Gypsyu and African-German people are expelled from German Public schools.

Mar 22, 1941

The Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) begin mass murder

Jun 22, 1941

Jews, Gypsies and Communist leaders are the main figures murdered, when the German army invades the Soviet Union.

Soviet and polish prisoners are killed in a test of the gas chambers in Auschwitz

Sep 23, 1941

Over 30000 Jews are murdered by the Mobile Killing squads

Sep 28, 1941

In 2 days, in towns in Ukraine

German and Austrian Jews are deported to ghettos in Eastern Europe

Oct 1, 1941

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbour

Dec 7, 1941

Gassing operations begin at the Chelmno Extrermination camp

Dec 8, 1941

Germany Declares war on USA

Dec 11, 1941

Nazi Extermination are put into use

Jan 1, 1942

Auschwitz, treblinka, sobibor, belzec and Majdanek camps all begin the mass murder of the Jewish in gas Chambers

Wannsee Conference

Jan 20, 1942

15 Nazi leaders meet to discuss the final soloution of the Jews

Warwas ghetto Uprising

Apr 19, 1943

Jews in the warsaw Ghetto fight with arms as the germans attempt to send them to Extermination camps.

Tehran Conference

Nov 28, 1943

Over 430,000 Hungarian Jews are deported to Auschwitz

May 15, 1944

Most of them where gassed.

D-Day

Jun 6, 1944

Allied powers invade Western Europe

German officers fail in an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler

Jul 20, 1944

Prisoners revolt at Auschwitz

Oct 7, 1944

A crematorium is blown up

Nazi's Evacuate Aushwitz

Jan 17, 1945

Prisoners being death marches towards germany

Soviet troops enter Auschwitz

Jan 27, 1945

Yalta Conference

Feb 4, 1945

Adolf Hitler's Death

Apr 30, 1945

Germany Surenders

May 7, 1945

End of WW2 in Europe

May 8, 1945

Victory in Europe day.

Allies choose Nuremberg as venue

Jul 7, 1945

Robert Jackson, the chief prosecuter from the U.S, for the trail visits Nuremberg's Palace of justice. Despite 9/10 of the city being destroyed by Allied bombs.

Postdam Conference

Jul 16, 1945

The London agreement is signed

Aug 8, 1945

This agreement allowed for the Nuremberg trails to be possible and enabled for the prosecution of ww2 war criminals.

Indictments are issued against the major figures facing war tribunal

Oct 19, 1945

The Nuremberg trials begin

Nov 20, 1945

At 10 a.m. in Nuremberg Germany

The Nuremburg Trials for Nazi Leaders

Period: Nov 20, 1945 to Oct 1, 1946

This time period was the trials for the main leaders of the Nazi regime, there was 7 subsiquent trials for other groups and men.

Defendants plea Not Guilty

Nov 21, 1945

The prosecution introduces a film of Nazi horrors

Nov 29, 1945

There is a a mixed reaction from the defendants

The prosecution of the seven organisations begin

Dec 18, 1945

The Nazi party leadership, the German High Command, the SS, the SA, the SD, the Reich Cabinet, and the Gestapo are prosectuted

Winston Churchill delivers his 'Iron Curtain' speech

Mar 5, 1946

The soviet finishes there prosecution

Mar 6, 1946

Defence makes its case

Mar 8, 1946

Hermann Goering begins his testimony

Mar 13, 1946

2nd Highest ranking Nazi official.
Sentanced to death, however comitted suicide the night before he was due to be hanged, he killed himseld with a cyanide pill.
He was found guilty of Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace, Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace, War crimes and Crimes against humanity

Joachim von Ribbentrop testifies

Apr 1, 1946

Sentanced to death.
Found guilty for War Crimes, Crimes against humanity, Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace and Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner testifies

Apr 11, 1946

Sentanced to death.
Found Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes against humanity

Hans Frank testifies

Apr 18, 1946

Governer General of Occupied Poland from 1939-1945
Sentenced to Death
Found Guilty of War Crimes and crimes against humanity

Julius Streicher testifies

Apr 26, 1946

Famous for a lot of Nazi propaganda and heavy anti-semitacism
Sentanced to Death
Found guilty of Crimes against humanity

Dr. Hjalmar Schact testifies

Apr 30, 1946

President of the Reichbank and econmics minister pre-World War 2.
Acquited of his charges of, Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace and Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace

Walther Funk testifies

May 3, 1946

Minister of economics and President of the Reichsbank from 1938-1945
Sentenced to life imprisonment
Found Guilty of Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace, War crimes and Crimes against humanity

Karl Donitz testifies

May 8, 1946

Leader of the Kriegsmarine.
Sentanced to 10 years.
Found Guilty of War Crimes and Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace

Erich Raeder testifies

May 20, 1946

Chief of the Kriegsmarine from 1928 to 1943
Sentanced to Life Imprisonment
Found Guilty of War crimes, Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace and Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace

Baldur von Schirach testifies

May 23, 1946

Head of the Hitler Youth.
Sentance 20 years
Found Guilty of Crimes against humanity

Fritz Sauckel testifies

May 28, 1946

A Leader of the Nazi slave labour program from 19201945
Sentenced to Death
Found Guilty of War Crimes and crimes against Humanity

Alfred Jodl testifes

Jun 3, 1946

Sentanced to death.
Found guilty of Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace, Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace, War crimes and Crimes against humanity

Arthur Seyss-Inquart testifies

Jun 10, 1946

He was the German Commisioner of the occupied Netherlands from 1940-1945
Sentanced to Death
Found Guilty of Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace, War crimes and Crimes against humanity

Franz von Papen testifies

Jun 14, 1946

Vice chacellor and chancellor of germany in the early 1930's
Found not guily of his charges, but later was classified as a war criminal by the German-De nazification court and as a result he was sentanced to 8 years hard labour. He appealled the decision and only served 2.

Albert Speer testifies

Jun 21, 1946

Sentanced to 20 years.
Found guilty of War crimes and Crimes against humanity

Defendants Make Final Statements

Aug 31, 1946

The justices meet to discuss verdicts

Sep 2, 1946

The verdicts are announced

Oct 1, 1946

The verdicts against the major war criminals are handed down by the International Military Tribunal.

11 of the 21 defendants are sentenced to death.

Subsiquent Nuremberg trials

Period: Oct 2, 1946 to Apr 13, 1949

Goering Commits suicide

Oct 15, 1946

10 of the war Criminals are hanged

Oct 16, 1946

The trials of 23 Nazi phsysicians begin

Oct 25, 1946

20 Members of the Mobile Killing units trials begin

Apr 10, 1947

14 of these men are sentenced to death

The trials of 16 Nazi doctors being

Aug 21, 1947

7 are sentenced to death

Sentences for 10 convicted members of the Reich Ministry

Dec 4, 1947

The sentences of the final trial are anounced

Apr 13, 1949

This concludes the 4 years of the Nuremberg trials.