Nazi GermanyA Brief Timeline

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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.)

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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