January 30, 1933
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.
March 22, 1933
First concentration camp opens.
April 1, 1933
Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
May 10, 1933
Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state.
August 2, 1934
Hitler proclaims himself Fuhrer (combination of president and chancellor).
September 15, 1935 (Identification)
Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted.
1. Jews no longer considered German citizens
2. Jews could not marry Aryans
3. Jews could not fly the German flag
November 15, 1935 (Identification)
Germany defines a "Jew".
- Anyone with three Jewish grandparents
- Someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
July 15, 1936
Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
July 6th, 1938 (Identification)
Evian conference held in Evian, France. Decided what to do with Jewish refugees. Jewish problem not solved.
November 9-10, 1938
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass):
- Anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland.
September 1, 1939
Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland.
October 28, 1939
First Polish Ghetto established in Piotrkow.
November 23, 1939
Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear armband saying their Jewish.
May 20, 1940
Auschwitz (concentration camp) opens.
November 16, 1940
The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed.
October 1941
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is established for the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others.
January 20, 1942 (Identification)
Wannsee Conference in Berlin. "The Final Solution" was proposed/enacted. All Jews in Europe will be killed in Europe.
May 1943
Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. The people of the Ghetto were rounded up to be taken to death camps.
November 8, 1943 (Identification)
The beginning of death marches. The point of death marches were to kill the Jews gradually.
January 17, 1945
Evacuation of Auschwitz.
April 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide.
May 8, 1945
Known as Victory in Europe day. Germany surrenders and the Third Reich ends.
September 2, 1945
Japan surrenders, World War II ends.
Nuremberg Laws
Anti-Jew laws
What does Germany define as a Jew?
Three Jewish grandparents
Evian conference
Decided what to do with Jewish refugees
Wannsee conference
Murder of all Jews
Being of death march and what is it
Nov 8 1944: 40,000 jews marched from budapest to Austria