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Timeline of the Holocaust

Timeline of the Holocaust. 1933 - 1945. January 1 st 1933. Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany Hitler’s goal was to conquer other countries under the German Empire Ultimately Hitler created a one party state (dictatorship). March 20 th 1933. Dachau opens near Munich

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Timeline of the Holocaust

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  1. Timeline of the Holocaust 1933 - 1945

  2. January 1st 1933 • Hitler sworn in as Chancellor of Germany • Hitler’s goal was to conquer other countries under the German Empire • Ultimately Hitler created a one party state (dictatorship)

  3. March 20th 1933 • Dachau opens near Munich • 1st German Concentration Camp • Prisoners are mostly Communists and Socialists

  4. June 27th 1935 • Homosexuality criminalized • Those found guilty were sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in jail September 14th 1935 Nuremburg Laws passed • Jews reduced to second class citizens with limited rights • Prohibited marriage with Jews • Was the basis of a series of laws that stripped the Jews of every right they had

  5. Jewish punishment as a result of the Nuremburg Laws

  6. July 15th 1936Gypsies were rounded up and sent to containment camps where many die of disease.

  7. March 12th 1938 • Germany invades Austria, know as the “Anchluss” • German Anti-Semitic laws are immediately enforced in Austria • Many Jews try to flee the country • 130,000 were able to get out.

  8. April 25th 1938 All Jewish property and business must be reports to Nazi administration (limit was set) • Causes massive unemployment and hardships among Jews. May 15th 1938 • First Jews sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria

  9. Kristallnacht“night of broken glass” November 8th 1938 Nazi officials stormed through Jewish towns destroying all property • 1,000 synagogues were burned • 7,000 business were destroyed • 26,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps • 91 Jewish men were murdered

  10. Aftermath of Kristallnacht • A meeting was held by German officials after the terror, the result of the meeting: • Jews were ordered to pay for the destruction • All Jews were banned from schools, theaters, and restaurants

  11. July 24th 1939 • 1st disabled child killed • Hitler’s “experts” lay down a basis for the removal of severely disabled children • Starved to death or given lethal injection • 5,200 infants died this way

  12. September 1st 1939 • Nazi invasion of Poland • Theme of Nazi troops- “We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews”

  13. October 8th 1939 1st Jewish ghetto in Poland opened Housed 18,000 Jews April 30th 1940 Lodz ghetto in Poland is sealed Result: many die of disease and starvation Creation of ghettos

  14. Auschwitz OpensMay 20th 1940

  15. June 22nd 1941 • Hitler invades USSR in a “war of extermination” • Wanted more living room, raw materials, and food for the German people

  16. June 24th Jewish massacre at Vilna, Lithuania 33,500 out of 55,000 Jews killed September 29th Kiev, Ukraine Jews are taken to Babi Yar and killed 33,771 Jews in all Massacres in 1941

  17. January 20th 1942Wannsee Conference • Conference was held to decide what to do with the Jews • Majority of Jews were sent to labor camps to be worked to death on road building for Germany • Some more privileged Jews were sent to the ghettos

  18. April 19th 1943 • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • Jewish civilians living in the Warsaw ghetto fought back against Nazi forces for 4 weeks • Eventually they were overtaken • 60,000 surviving Jews were sent away to camps

  19. August 30th 1944 Liquidation of Lodz Ghetto January 17th 1945 Liberation of Warsaw The End is Near

  20. April 30th 1945 • Hitler commits suicide

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