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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. A timeline of events leading to systematic genocide. 1933. January: Adolf appointed chancellor of Germany February: Germany govt. takes away freedom of speech, assembly, press, and freedom from invasion of privacy

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust A timeline of events leading to systematic genocide

  2. 1933 January: Adolf appointed chancellor of Germany February: Germany govt. takes away freedom of speech, assembly, press, and freedom from invasion of privacy March: First concentration camp is established in Nazi Germany; first prisoners are political opponents April: Nation-wide boycott of Jewish businesses and Jews are barred from government service

  3. Boycotting of Jewish Businesses

  4. 1933 May: Books by Jews and Nazi opponents are burned publicly July: Laws passed permitting forced sterilization of Gypsies, mentally and physically disabled, African-Germans and others considered “inferior” and “unfit” October: It is taught in all Germany schools that “non-Aryans” are racially inferior.

  5. Book Burning

  6. 1934 August: Adolph declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich October: First wave of arrests of homosexuals throughout Germany

  7. 1935 April: Jehovah’s Witnesses are banned from all civil service jobs and are arrested May: “No Jews” signs and notices are posted through towns September: the Nuremberg Laws deprive Jews of their citizenship

  8. Banner Reads: Jews not wanted here!

  9. 1936 July: First German Gypsies are arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp October: Govt. prohibits teaching by “non-Aryans” in public schools and bans private instruction by Jewish teachers

  10. 1937 July: Buchenwald concentration camp opens November: Jews can obtain passports to travel outside of Germany only in special cases

  11. Buchenwald Prisoners at Liberation April 16, 1945

  12. 1938 July: Representatives from 32 countries meet in France to discuss refugee policies. Most countries refuse to let in more Jewish refugees November: Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) Nazis burn hundreds of synagogues, loot and destroy Jewish homes, schools, stores, and community offices. 30,000 Jewish men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Jews forced to pay reparations for the damages of Kristallnacht

  13. Pogrom: organized persecution of an ethnic group

  14. 1938 November: All Jewish children are expelled from German schools December: Jews banned from public streets on certain days; Jews are forbidden drivers’ licenses and car registrations December: Jews must sell their businesses and real estate and had over securities and jewelry to the govt. at low prices December: Jews may no longer attend universities as teachers or students

  15. 1939 September: Germany invades Poland and WWII officially begins September: Jews forced to turn in radios, cameras, and other electric objects to the police. Jews receive more restrictive ration coupons – do not receive coupons for meat, milk, etc. Receive less clothing rations as well October: Hitler allows doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled persons November: Jews in Poland are forced to wear Star of David on their chests or or a blue and white Star of David armband

  16. Star of David

  17. 1940 May: 164,000 Polish Hews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto which is sealed off from the outside world. Auschwitz is established October: Anti-Jewish laws are passed by France’s Vichy Government November: the Warsaw ghetto is closed off with approximately 500,000 inhabitants

  18. Warsaw Ghetto

  19. 1941 March: Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools May: Romania passes law condemning adult Jews to forced labor June: the Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads, begin mass murders of Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders September: Soviet prisoners of war and Polish prisoners are killed in Nazi test of gas chambers at Auschwitz

  20. Einsatzgruppen

  21. 1941 October: Construction of the Birkenau camp, including a killing center, begins October: First group of German and Austrian Jews are deported to ghettos in eastern Europe December: The Chelmno death camp opens near Lodz, Poland and the first gassing of victims in mobile gas vans occurs

  22. Birkenau:Gate Reads “Work Makes You Free”

  23. Birkenau Camps and Gas Chambers

  24. 1942 January: Nazi and government leaders meet to decide the “final solution to the Jewish question” September: Jews in the Lodz ghetto are deported to the Chelmno killing center. Mostly children under 10 and people over 65, but also those too sick to work October: All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz

  25. 1943 March: All Gypsies in Germany and occupied countries are arrested and deported to Auschwitz Fall: Danish citizens smuggle most of the nation’s Jews to neutral Sweden

  26. 1944 May: The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews; Over 430,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz and are gassed October: The prisoners at Auschwitz rebel and blow up one crematorium

  27. Auschwitz

  28. 1945 January: Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on “death marches” to Germany January: Soviet army liberates Auschwitz April: U.S. Troops liberate survivors from Buchenwald and Dachau May 7: Germany surrenders and war in Europe has ended

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