The Holocaust

By alejandramn6

  • Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

    Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany

  • 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 the 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 the 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 governement to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental dissabilities not to have children

    Approval of the Sterilization Law: It allowed the governement to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental dissabilities 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 witnesses organization

    Prohibition of Jehovah's witnesses organization

  • Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as "homosexual", being excluded of being accaounted as German population

    Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as "homosexual", being excluded of being accaounted 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

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht

  • Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

    Germany annexed Czechoslovakia

  • German-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression

    German-Soviet Pact of Non-Aggression

  • Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the WWII

    Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the WWII

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

    Approval of 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 definitely formed

    Axis alliance (Germany, Italy, and Japan) is definitely 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 WWII

    Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA entered WWII

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

    Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poisson 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

  • 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 WWII in Europe

    Surrender of Germany. End of the WWII in Europe