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Timeline Events leading to the Holocaust

Timeline Events leading to the Holocaust. 1933. January: The Nazi Party takes control of Germany while Hitler becomes chancellor February: Civil liberties for all citizens were “temporarily restricted” March: A c oncentration camp was established in Dachau

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Timeline Events leading to the Holocaust

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  1. TimelineEvents leading to the Holocaust

  2. 1933 • January: The Nazi Party takes control of Germany while Hitler becomes chancellor • February: Civil liberties for all citizens were “temporarily restricted” • March: A concentration camp was established in Dachau • May: All Nazi Party beliefs are publicity burned, trade unions also close.

  3. 1935 • September: Nuremburg laws are passed • Nuremburg laws- definition of a Jewish person, made sure Jews did not escape like many did. All citizenship was taken away from Jews. • Other types of people were defined “inferior” and were treated as the Jews were • Romanies (Gypsies),Jehovah’s Whitnesses & Homosexuals • Many were sent to concentration camps

  4. 1938 • July: The Evian Conference occurred • The Evian Conference- 32 countries gathered together to discuss how many Jews were fleeing Germany because of Hitler • November: Kristallnacht “The Night of Broken Glass” • Kristallnacht- Jews were arrested, killed, and shops and businesses were robbed • December: Nazis took over all Jewish owned businesses

  5. 1939 • September: World War II begins, Germany invades Poland • October: Euthanasia program was ordered by Hitler, which lead to the systematic murder of the disabled in Germany and Austria

  6. 1940 • February: German Jews were being deported to Poland • December: First mass murder of Jews by the Nazis in Treblinka

  7. 1941 • June: Mobile killing units were the start the systematic slaughter of Jews • September: 33,771 Ukrainian Jews were killed at BabiYar ( largest massacre of the Holocaust) • December: A death camp at Chelmno opens

  8. 1942 • January: Wannsee Conference took place • Wannsee Conference- Nazis organized and planned the “Final Solution” • Final Solution- plan to kill all European Jews • Gas chambers were added to six death camps to begin the killing of Jews in Poland *Thousands of Jews were killed each day

  9. 1945 • May: U.S. and Allied forces overtake the Nazis, the remaining Jews in the concentration camps were released

  10. Works Cited • http://isurvived.org/cronology.html

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