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The Holocaust

  • Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor
    Hitler is appointed as Chancellor and the Nazi party takes control of Germany.
  • First Official Nazi Concentration Camp Opens

    First Official Nazi Concentration Camp Opens
    The camp opens up in a small village called Dachau. Although there were smaller camps established beforehand, this was a bigger and offical camp.
  • Boycott of Jewish Shops and Businesses

    Boycott of Jewish Shops and Businesses
    Many Germans put up signs on Jewish shops for the boycott. However, Germans still entered the shop so it was called off after a few hours, but it shows how Germans felt about Jews.
  • Jews Limited From Public Schools

    Jews Limited From Public Schools
    This law was against the schools and universities overcrowding. It limited the number of Jews allowed in these schools.
  • Burning of the Books

    Burning of the Books
    Many Germans gathered around piles of books written by Jews or were against German culture, and burned them.
  • Hitler Becomes Reich Chancellor

    Hitler Becomes Reich Chancellor
    Hitler had proclaimed himself as the leader of Germany and became the Reich Chancellor. Armed forces had to swear allegiance to him too.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    Jewish racial laws are passed and Jews were not considered to be German citizens anymore, couldn't have jobs involving law or medicine, could only marry other Jews, and couldn't publish books.
  • Buchenwald Camps

    Buchenwald Camps
    Buchenwald Concentration camps had opened up and became one of the largest camps made in the older German borders.
  • Stamped Passports

    Stamped Passports
    Germans marked all Jewish passports with a big "J" to stop them from immigrating to Switzerland.
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Germans went on destroying 200 synagogues, 7,500 Jewish shops, and had 30,000 men sent to concentration camps.
  • Levies

    Levies
    $1,000,000,000 tax were marked against German Jews
  • World War II Poland Deaths

    World War II Poland Deaths
    At the beginning of World War II Germany invaded Poland and was killing the civilians, at least 16,000 murdered, 5,000 Jews.