The Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire; any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

“”First set fire to their synagogues or schools…Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed…instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies…Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them….Fourth I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb…Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews…let them stay at home.” Martin Luther, On Jews and Their Lies, 1543

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Henry Ford

Alfred Sloan & G.M. Motors

Beer Hall Putsch Nov. 9, 1923

Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF “Mein Kampf” means “My Struggle”; Hitler wrote it while in prison in the 1920’s Still banned in most European countries Given to every newly married German couple from the late 1930’s onward Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor

March 22, 1933 Dachau Concentration Camp built

May 10, 1933 Book Burnings

Historical Film Footage of book burning in Berlin Historical Film Footage of book burning in Berlin

Night of the Long Knives June 30, 1934

"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people." "It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his lot."

Sept. 10, 1935 Nuremberg Laws

August 1-16, 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin

Historical Film Footage of 1936 Olympics in Berlin

October 1938 Deportations Begin

November 7, 1938 Assassination of Ernst Vom Rath

'Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people have a right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have been I have been chased like an animal.' 9 -- Herchel Grynszpan

November 9, 1938 Kristallnacht

American Response to Kristallnacht Historical Film Footage

May 1939 S.S. St. Louis

American Video about the SS St. Louis Historical Film Footage from USHMM

Sept. 1, 1939 WWII Begins: Germany attacks Poland

Hitler speaks before the German Parliament Historical Film Footage from the USHMM

October 1939 Euthanasia Program targets the handicapped

Adolf Hitler's authorization for the Euthanasia Program (Operation T4), signed in October 1939 but dated September 1, __________ National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

Buses used to transport patients to Hadamar euthanasia center. The windows were painted to prevent people from seeing those inside. Germany, between May and September __________ Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Wiesbaden

Summer 1941 Killing Squads “Einsatzgruppen”

December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

Attack on Pearl Harbor Historical Film Footage from USHMM

January 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference

Reinhard Heydrich, chief of SD (Security) Service

February 19, 1942 Executive Order 9066: Camps for Japanese in America

Summer 1942 Deportations to camps begin

April-October 1943 Rebellion

Treblinka under attackTrain tracks leading into Sobibor

December 1944 Death Marches

January-May 1945: Liberation

April 30, 1945 Death of Hitler

May 8, 1945 Surrender of Germany

October 18, October 1, 1946 Nuremberg Trials

Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF Guilty: 12- sentenced to death; 3- life imprisonment; four years in prison Innocent: 3 were acquitted Nuremberg Trial Convictions

May 14, 1948 Israel: A New State

“Only guard yourself and guard your soul carefully, lest you forget the things your eyes saw, and lest these things depart your heart all the days of your life, and you shall make them known to your children, and to your children’s children.” Deuteronomy 4:9