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Hitler became the Chencellor of Germany. Conservative leader Alfred Hugenburg disagreed with Hitlers view over new elections. This was the final arguement between them before Hitler finally became Chancellor.
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The Reichstag building was the home of the German government. Nazi soldiers burned down Reichstag on February 27 1933. This allowed Hitler to seize power.
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The Dachau concentration camp was opened near Munich. Directly after the Bunchenwald near Weimar central Germany. Sachsenhausen was then opened near Berlin in Northern Germany.
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Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels incited the crowd in Berlin Lustgarten to boycott Jewish businesses. Nazis forced three Jewish businessmen to march down Bruehl Strasse. It is one of the main commercial streets in central Leipzig. They forced them to carry signs that read: "Don't buy from Jews; Shop in German businesses!"
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Germans describe anyone who is not Aryan... "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
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The Nazi party is declared the only legal party in Germany. Germans strip Polish immigrant Jews of their citizenship in Germany. They strip Jews of their rights.
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Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals. This allows the Nazi party to send criminals beggers homeless alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
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The Nazis pass a law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases
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"I know there are many people in Germany who feel sick at the very sight of this black (SS) uniform," said Himmler in 1936. "We understand this and we do not expect to be loved...All those who have Germany at heart, will and should respect us. All those who in some way or at some time have a bad conscience in respect to the Führer and the nation should fear us. For these people we have constructed an organization called the SD (SS security service) and in the same way...the Gestapo (secret state
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Germany built a brand new stadium for the olympic games. As Hitler entered the stadium the entire german croud stood up and soluted him. But then Jesse Owens pooped on all the Germans.
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"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem.Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that for some time now they have been laughing"
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Officially on September first 1939 Jews are not aloud to go outside. In the winter Jews have to be inside at by 8 pm. And in the summer they had to be in by 9 pm.
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Great Britian and France declare war on Germany.
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"Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen in Poland regarding treatment of Jews, they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal."
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Jews were sent to consentration camps to do labor. These jews were treated poorly and got way underfed. They would usually die from starvation.
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Stars were worn by Jews to identify them. If a Jew was caught not wearing the star they were to be punished. The star was called the star of david.
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Oswiecim Auschwitz in Poland is the site of a new concentration camp. This camp would end up being the most brutal concentration camp they would make.
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The Lodz Ghetto is occupied. It is then sealed off from the outside world. 230,000 Jews are trapped inside.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off
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The Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
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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
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In occupied Poland, Belzec extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
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SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz.
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Newly built gas chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz
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Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies
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Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons - half of the Jews in Hungary - arrive at Auschwitz
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Invasion of eastern Germany by Russian troops
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Berlin is reached by Russian troops
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Hitler Commits suicide
