the events of the holocaust

  • Before 1933

    Germany was trying to recover from the death or injury if tens of millions of soldiers and civilians after WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles. Their was over 9 million Jews living in Europe (was 1.7% of the population) and in Germany there was German Jews that numbered about 500,000 or less than 1% of the national population.
  • Adolf Hitler as German Chancellor

    The Nazi Party assumes control of the German states.
  • concentration camps

    in 1933, Hitler established concentration camps (the first being Dachau Camp), imprisoning its political opponents,Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and others classified as "dangerous" this well go on intill the end of the war
  • book burning

    books deemed " un-German" are publicly burned throughout Germany
  • Death of German president von Hindenburg

    Adolf Hitler becomes President of German
  • POLAND

    HITLER INVADED POLAND to get more living space. he took much
    of Europe. Then confiscated Jewish property and was made to wear armband to identify them
  • Explosion of the SS Patria

    The destruction of the ship carrying 1800 Jewish refugees
  • to soviet union

    Hitler turned on his ally, the Soviet Union, and used local civilians and police support and Einsatzgruppen to follow the German army to carry out mass shooting as they advanced into the Soviet lands. Gas vans would appeared on the eastern front in the late fall 1941.
  • Krakow Ghetto established

    between 15000 and 20000 Jews were forced to live within the ghetto boundaries.
  • the two front

    as the fighting grow more intensified, they started to kill more Jews by the millions using poison gas.
  • AFTER 1945

    BY MAY 1945 six million Jews have been murdered as a part of systematic plan of genocide- the holocaust.
  • Hitler commits suicide

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin.