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WWII and Holocaust Timeline
A Brief History
January 30th, 1933
• Hitler is Appointed Chancellor of Germany.
March 24, 1933
• German Parliament passes the Enabling
Act.
– The Enabling Act Gave Hitler dictatorial
powers.
September 15, 1935
• Nuremberg Race Laws Against Jews
enacted.
– The laws deprived German Jews of their
rights of citizenship, giving them the status of
"subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also
forbid Jews to marry or have sexual relations
with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women
as household help
• www.historyplace.com/.../timeline/nurem-laws.htm
Nuremberg Laws, 1935
Define who is, and who is not, Jewish
August 1st, 1936
• Olympic games in Berlin
– Due to international attention, Nazi
discrimination against the Jews lessened
during the Olympics.
– Hitler viewed the Olympics as a time to
showcase the new Germany.
Jesse Owens wins the gold medal
for the long jump.
November 9th and 10th 1938
• Kristallnacht
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www.historyplace.com/.../triumph/tr-knacht.htm
September 1st, 1939
• Nazis invade Poland
– The Jewish population was 3.35 million, the
largest in Europe
– Two days later, September 3rd, England and
France declare war on Germany
December 7th, 1941
• Japanese, Germany’s allies, attack the United
States at Pearl Harbor. The Next day, U.S. and
Britain declare war on Japan.
• December 11th, 1941, Germany declares war on
the United States.
Operation Barbarossa
June, 1941
• Nazis attack USSR, violating the two
countries’ non-aggression pact.
• 4.5 million Nazi troops invade—a major
commitment of Nazi resources.
• After initial success, Soviets hold the line.
• July 1942, Battle of Stalingrad is bloodiest
battle in the history of warfare.
– Lasts over five months and costs
approximately 1.5 Million lives
Wannsee Conference
Berlin, January 1942
• Nazi top brass (both
military and civilian)
meet in secret.
• Led by General
Richard Heydrich
(at right)
• Centralizes power
with the SS for the
“final solution to the
Jewish Question.”
June 6th, 1944
• D-Day: The Allied Troops Invade the beaches of
Normandy.
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January 27, 1945
• Soviet Troops liberate Auschwitz
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This photo was staged in February after the liberation because they did not have cameras during the actual
liberation.
• April 20th, 1945 Hitler commits suicide in
his Berlin Bunker.
• May 7th- Germany surrenders
unconditionally.
November 20th, 1945
• Opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
– After the Allies agreed to bring major Nazi leaders to trial, they
had trouble deciding whom to indict. Top Nazi leaders Adolf
Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels had committed
suicide, leaving their less powerful colleagues to be held
accountable. On October 18, 1945, the United States, Great
Britain, France, and Russia issued an indictment against 24 men
and six Nazi organizations. Twenty-one of the indicted men
eventually sat in the dock in the Nuremberg courtroom. Three of
the defendants escaped trial: industrialist Gustav Krupp, who
was too frail; Hitler's private secretary Martin Bormann, whose
remains were finally located in Berlin in 1972; and labor leader
Robert Ley, who hanged himself before the trial.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nuremberg/peopleevents/p_defendants.html
Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess as the
verdicts were being read at Nuremberg.