Holocaust Timeline
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Updated: 10 Mar 2020
A historic timeline of the Holocaust between 1933-1945.
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Created byEdward Cabrales
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January 30th, 1933 - Adolf Hitler
is appointed Chancellor of Germany,
a nation with a Jewish population of
566,000.February 28, 1933, - Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result
of the Reichstag Fire.March 24, 1933 - German parliament granted Hitler
dictorial powers due to the passing of the Enabling Act.August 2, 1934 - Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor).
Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.September 15, 1935 - "Nuremberg Laws": first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens;
Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag.November 8, 1932 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is
elected the 32nd President of the United StatesNovember 15, 1935 - Germany defines a "Jew" to
anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.July 12, 1936 - Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.October 25, 1936 - Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis.July 15, 1937 - Buchenwald concentration camp opens.November 9-10, 1938 - Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland;
200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen).March 15, 1939 - Germans occupy Czechoslovakia.September 1, 1939 - Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland.
In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazis in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.April 9, 1940 - Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.September 27, 1940 - Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis is formed.July - August, 1941 - Dozens thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the Einzatzgruppen.December 7, 1941 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.
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