Nazi Germany A Brief Timeline

Timeline Jan Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany Mar Nazis open Dachau concentration camp May Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany Sept Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land May 1933 – German President dies May 1934 – Hitler becomes Fuhrer. 90% of Germans approve his powers Jan – Jews are banned from professional occupations (teachers, dentists, etc.)

Timeline Apr – Jews ordered to register wealth and property July All Jews over 15 must apply for identity cards Nov – German official is shot and mortally wounded by a deported Polish Jew. Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) occurs as a result. Nov – Jewish pupils expelled from all non-Jewish schools Jan – 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 – Jews ordered to hand over all gold and silver Sept All Jews are forbidden to own radio sets Sept – Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in the winter and 9 p.m. in summer Oct – Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany

Timeline Nov – 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 – Lodz Ghetto (Poland) sealed off from outside world with 230,000 Jews inside Nov – Krakow Ghetto sealed off from outside world with 70,000 Jews inside Nov – Warsaw Ghetto sealed off from outside world with 400,000 Jews inside

Timeline Sept – Beginning of general deportation of Jews Dec 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 – Mass killings of Jews begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau Mar – Deportations of Slovak and French Jews to Auschwitz June 1942 – SS reports 97,000 persons have been “processed” in mobile gas vans

Timeline Nov – 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 – Four new gas chambers/crematoria opens at Auschwitz. They have the daily capacity of 4,756 bodies. Jan – As allied troops advance, Nazis conduct death marches of inmates

Apr – Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker Jan – Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. An estimated 2,000,000 people were murdered there, 1,500,000 of them Jews Apr – Allies and Russians liberate most camps May 1945 – Unconditional German surrender Nov – Opening of the Nuremburg Tribunal