Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust The Horror Continues November 9, 1938 -- "Kristallnacht": Anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria. 300,000 are arrested, 191 synagogues are destroyed, 7,500 shops are looted. (Emmalin PPX)

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust Nov 12, 1938 - Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust On 16 November, the full British Cabinet met to discuss 'The Jewish Problem'. The British government was feeling more and more pressure to take some sort of action in response to Kristallnacht,

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust People felt that doing nothing was seriously damaging Britain's reputation -- especially in the United States.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust The British hoped the United States would take on more responsibility with taking in Jewish refugees since the British resources were already stretched.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust On the 21st of Nov 1939, Prime Minister Chamberlain made the first public speech to the House of Commons on the refugee problem, and agreed to allow children into the country without passports or visas.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust A transit camp was set up at Richborough in Kent, England for the Jewish men rescued from German concentration camps to go. Originally intended to hold 5000 refugees, the camp held only 3500.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust By the beginning of 1939, Adolf Hitler tried to steal two separate neighboring territories at the same time. While he was focusing on taking Czechoslovakia, he was also pressuring Poland to give him the former German city of Danzig located on the Baltic Sea.

March 15/16 - Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia (Jewish pop. 350,000).

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust April 19, 1939 - Slovakia passes its own version of the Nuremberg Laws. Nuremberg Laws on Citizenship and Race The "Nuremberg Laws" established the legal basis for racial discrimination. There was almost no opposition to the introduction of these laws. Only a person of ‘pure blood' (four white circles, top row left, on the chart) could be a German citizen.

In May 1939- TheSt. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust May 13 In Hamburg, Jewish refugees board the SS St. Louis, a German ocean liner, for trip to Cuba, where they hope to find temporary refuge. Cuba and Miami turn them away. June 16-20 SS St. Louis returns to Europe, where the passengers disembark.

The partition of Czechoslovakia in 1938-1939 determined the fate of its Jews during the war.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust According to the 1941 census, about 90,000 Jews lived in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Tens of thousands of Jews from Prague, as well as from Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc, and other towns of the Protectorate, were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto.

On November 24, 1941, the Germans established a Jewish ghetto in the fortress town of Terezin,Czechoslovakia. Known by its German name, Theresienstadt,

Of the approximately 140,000 Jews transferred to Theresienstadt, nearly 90,000 were deported to points further east and almost certain death. Roughly 33,000 died in Theresienstadt itself.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust July 21, 1939 - Adolf Eichmann is appointed director of the Prague Office of Jewish Emigration.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust Adolf Eichmann Adolf Eichmann was entrusted by the leaders of Nazi Germany with responsibility for carrying out and coordinating the “final solution”—the murder of almost 6 million Jews during World War II.

Adolph Hitler & the Holocaust On 23 August, 1939, the world was shocked when, suddenly, Russia and Germany signed a 'Non-aggression Pact'. Also known as the Nazi –Soviet Nonagression Pact.