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Holocaust

  • Appointment

    Appointment
    Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany
  • Dachau

    Dachau
    Dachau Concentration Camp opened
  • Boycott

    Boycott
    One-day boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Gestapo (German internal police) established
  • Burning

    Burning
    Public burnings of books written by Jewish people, political dissidents and others not approved by the State
  • Führer

    Führer
    Hitler names himself Führer and Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor)
  • Enlistment

    Enlistment
    Jews forbidden from joining the German Army
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    Nuremberg Laws passed. Jews were no longer German citizens; Jews could not marry German citizens. They could not fly the German flag either.
  • Medicine

    Jewish doctors banned from practising medicine in German institutions
  • Buchenwald

    Buchenwald
    Note: I was not able to find the actual day the camp opened, so I just put a random day
    Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens, one of the biggest camps on German soil.
  • Austria

    Austria
    Hitler adds Austria to the growing number of places under his control.
  • Italy

    Italy
    Italy enacts all-encompasing anti-Semetic laws
  • Munich Agreement

    Munich Agreement
    The Munich Agreement is settled. Britain and France accepted the German takeover of part of Czechoslovakia. It was actually signed in the early hours of September 30th, but it was dated as the 29th.
  • Passports

    Passports
    ALL Jewish passports were marked with a J, to restrict Jews from leaving the country
  • Expulsion

    Expulsion
    17,000 Polish Jews were expelled from Germany
  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    This event also took place on the 10th.
    Kristallnacht Decree forces all Jews to transfer retail businesses to the hands of German citizens. All Jewish students were expelled from German schools.
    There was also mob violence, as many Jews were beaten to death and fire set to their buildings.
    Also known as The Night of Broken Glass
  • War

    War
    Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
  • Yellow Star

    Yellow Star
    Jews in German occupied Poland forced to wear yellow star
  • Invasion

    Invasion
    Germany invades and Denmark and Norway
  • Invasion 2

    Invasion 2
    Germany invades Holland, Belgium, and France
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz
    Auschwitz concentration camp established
  • Surrending

    Surrending
    France surrenders to Germany
  • Britain

    Britain
    Battle of Britain
    Germany tried to bomb Britain into submission
  • Invasion 3

    Invasion 3
    Germany Invades Soviet Union
  • Final Solution

    Final Solution
    Hitler appoints Reinhard Heydrich to implement the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
  • Babi Yar Massacre

    Babi Yar Massacre
    34000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev, Russia
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor
    The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, America declares war on Japan and Germany
  • Sobibor

    Sobibor
    Armed revolt at Sobibor extermination camp
  • Warsaw Uprising

    Warsaw Uprising
    Warsaw ghetto uprising
  • Treblinka

    Treblinka
    Revolt at Treblinka, Poland
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Allied invasion at Normandy, France
  • Assasination Attempt

    Assasination Attempt
    Group of German officers attempt to assinate hitler
  • Majdanek

    Majdanek
    Russians liberate Majdanek killing center
  • Auschwitz

    Auschwitz
    Revolt by Sonderkommandos at Auschwitz
  • Suicide

    Suicide
    Hitler commits suicide
  • V-E Day

    V-E Day
    Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima
    First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
  • End of War

    End of War
    Japan surrenders; end of WWII