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Nazi GermanyA Brief Timeline
Timeline
Jan. 1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Mar. 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp
May 1933 - Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany
Sept. 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land
May 1933 – German President dies
May 1934 – Hitler becomes Fuhrer. 90% of Germans approve his powers
Jan. 1937 – Jews are banned from professional occupations (teachers, dentists, etc.)
Timeline
Apr. 1938 – Jews ordered to register wealth and property
July 1938 - All Jews over 15 must apply for identity cards
Nov. 1938 – German official is shot and mortally wounded by a deported Polish Jew. Kristallnacht (Crystal
Night) occurs as a result.
Nov. 1938 – Jewish pupils expelled from all non-Jewish schools
Jan. 1939 – Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
. . .if the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a World War, then the result will not be the Bolshevizing of the earth, and thus
the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!
Timeline
Feb. 1939 – Jews ordered to hand over all gold and silver
Sept. 1939- All Jews are forbidden to own radio sets
Sept. 1939 – Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in the winter and 9 p.m. in
summer
Oct. 1939 – Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany
Timeline
Nov. 1939 – Jews over the age of 10 required to wear yellow stars
July 1941 – As German Army advances, SS Einsatzgruppen follow and conduct mass murder of Jews in seized land
Apr. 1940 – Lodz Ghetto (Poland) sealed off from outside world with 230,000 Jews inside
Nov. 1940 – Krakow Ghetto sealed off from outside world with 70,000 Jews inside
Nov. 1940 – Warsaw Ghetto sealed off from outside world with 400,000 Jews inside
Timeline
Sept. 1941 – Beginning of general deportation of Jews
Dec. 1941 - In Poland, Ghelmno extermination camp becomes operational. Jews taken there are placed in a mobile gas van and driven to a
burial place while carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust is fed into the sealed rear
compartment.Jan. 1942 – Mass killings of Jews begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Mar. 1942 – Deportations of Slovak and French Jews to Auschwitz
June 1942 – SS reports 97,000 persons have been “processed” in mobile gas vans
Timeline
Nov. 1942 – The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special slave laborers to dig up and burn bodies to get rid of evidence
Mar. 1943 – Four new gas chambers/crematoria opens at Auschwitz. They have the daily capacity of 4,756 bodies.
Jan. 1945 – As allied troops advance, Nazis conduct death marches of inmates
Apr. 1945 – Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker
Jan. 1945 – Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. An estimated 2,000,000 people were murdered there,
1,500,000 of them Jews
Apr. 1945 – Allies and Russians liberate most camps
May 1945 – Unconditional German surrender
Nov. 1945 – Opening of the Nuremburg Tribunal