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Nazi Germany
A Brief Timeline
Jan. 1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Mar. 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp
May 1933 - Burning of books in Berlin and
throughout Germany
Sept. 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from
owning land
May 1933 – German President dies
May 1934 – Hitler becomes Fuhrer. 90%
of Germans approve his powers
Jan. 1937 – Jews are banned from professional
occupations (teachers, dentists, etc.)
Timeline
Apr. 1938 – Jews ordered to register wealth and property
July 1938 - All Jews over 15 must apply for identity cards
Nov. 1938 – German official is shot and mortally wounded by
a deported Polish Jew. Kristallnacht (Crystal
Night) occurs as a result.
Nov. 1938 – Jewish pupils expelled from all non-Jewish
schools
Jan. 1939 – Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
Timeline
. . .if the international Jewish financiers in and
outside Europe should succeed in plunging
the nations once more into a World War,
then the result will not be the Bolshevizing
of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry,
but the annihilation of the Jewish race in
Europe!
Feb. 1939 – Jews ordered to hand over all gold and silver
Sept. 1939 – Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors
after 8 p.m. in the winter and 9 p.m. in summer
Sept. 1939- All Jews are forbidden to own radio sets
Oct. 1939 – Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and
disabled in Germany
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Nov. 1939 – Jews over the age of 10 required to wear
yellow stars
Apr. 1940 – Lodz Ghetto (Poland) sealed off from
outside world with 230,000 Jews inside
Nov. 1940 – Krakow Ghetto sealed off from
outside world with 70,000
Jews inside
Nov. 1940 – Warsaw Ghetto sealed off from
outside world with 400,000 Jews inside
July 1941 – As German Army advances,
SS Einsatzgruppen follow and conduct
mass murder of Jews in seized land
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Sept. 1941 – Beginning of general deportation of Jews
Dec. 1941 - In Poland, Ghelmno extermination camp
becomes operational. Jews taken there are
placed in a mobile gas van and driven to a burial
place while carbon monoxide from the engine
exhaust is fed into the sealed rear compartment.
Jan. 1942 – Mass killings of Jews begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Mar. 1942 – Deportations of Slovak and French Jews to
Auschwitz
June 1942 – SS reports 97,000 persons have been “processed”
in mobile gas vans
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Nov. 1942 – The number of
Jews killed by SS
Einsatzgruppen passes one
million. Nazis then use
special slave laborers to dig
up and burn bodies to get
rid of evidence
Mar. 1943 – Four new gas
chambers/crematoria
opens at Auschwitz. They
have the daily capacity of
4,756 bodies.
Jan. 1945 – As allied troops
advance, Nazis conduct
death marches of inmates
Timeline
Jan. 1945 – Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. An estimated
2,000,000 people were murdered there, 1,500,000 of
them Jews
Apr. 1945 – Allies and Russians liberate most camps
Apr. 1945 – Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker
May 1945 – Unconditional German surrender
Nov. 1945 – Opening of the Nuremburg Tribunal