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The Holocaust

By sthompson14

  • A New Chancellor

    A New Chancellor
    On this day in history, Adolf Hitler was appointed the Chancellor of Germany.

  • Enabling Act of 1933

    Enabling Act of 1933
    The Enabling Act of 1933 gave Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. This means that Hitler had absolute power to take action with no limitations.

  • Nazi Boycott

    Nazi Boycott
    The Nazi Boycott was put in place to stop the use of Jewish businesses. This tactic was quickly abandoned because of the continued use of Jewish businesses. It led to the overall "Final Solution."
    https://youtu.be/PciQmoyKM-M

  • Beginning of Concentration Camps

    Beginning of Concentration Camps
    Buchenwald concentration camp opens

  • Kristallnacht

    Kristallnacht
    Kristallnacht, also known as The Night of Broken Glass, was an event where Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. The rioters destroyed synagogues throughout Germany, Austria, and the Sudentenland, and over 7,000 Jewish businesses were either destroyed or damaged. https://youtu.be/SiSLx8pcEAk

  • Refugees

    Refugees
    MS St. Louis sails from Hamburg to Cuba with 937 refugees, mostly Jews. Only 29 are allowed in. The rest, refused by Cuba, the United States and Canada are returned to Europe.
    https://youtu.be/_IdsdyGbiWM

  • Spark of World War II

    Spark of World War II
    Germans invasion of Poland sparks World War II.

  • First Gassing at Auschwitz

    First Gassing at Auschwitz
    The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. On September 3rd, 1941 the first gassings took place.

  • Red Cross

    Red Cross
    Red Cross representatives see elaborately staged Nazi propaganda ruse at Theresienstadt designed to portray camps as benign.

  • International Holocaust Remembrance Day

    International Holocaust Remembrance Day
    Auschwitz death camp was liberated by the Soviets. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jews, 8.7 million Slavs, 1.8 million ethnic Poles, 220,000 Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, 312,000 Serb civilians, 1,900 Jehovah's Witnesses, 70,000 "asocials", by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. https://youtu.be/6Jcxbjv7q90