1. TIMELINE OF INHUMANITY WWII

2. WORLD WAR I ENDS-NOVEMBER 11, 1918 ENABLING ACT GIVES HITLER POWER-MARCH 23, 1933

3. NUREMBERG RACE LAWS- SEPT. 15, 1935 The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ young Aryan women as household help. (An Aryan being a person with blond hair and blue eyes of Germanic heritage.)

4. February 10, 1936 Gestapo placed above the law-

5. KRISTALLNACHT-Nov. 9/10, 1938 Night of broken glass Onlookers watch as the local fire department prevents the fire from spreading to nearby houses, but makes no attempt to stop the synagogue from burning.

6. Cont’d A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the Germany on the night of November 9, 1938 On Nov. 9, mob violence broke out as the regular German police stood by and crowds of spectators watched. Nazi storm troopers along with members of the SS and Hitler Youth beat and murdered Jews, broke into and wrecked Jewish homes, and brutalized Jewish women and children. 7500 businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned (with 177 totally destroyed) and 91 Jews killed.

7. March 15/16, 1939 NAZIS TAKE OVER CZECHOSLOVAKIA As the Nazis take over different countries, the Jewish people in those communities become targets.

8. NAZIS INVADE POLAND Sept 1, 1939 The execution of Polish hostages in retaliation for an attack on a Nazi police station by the underground organization "White Eagle." In all, fifty-one civilians were shot.

9. September 3, 1939 Britain, France, Australia declare war on Germany

10. NAZI EUTHANASIA-Oct. 1939 In October of 1939 amid the outbreak of war Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled. Doctors were given questionnaires to answer when a child was born. red plus mark meant a decision to kill the child. A blue minus sign meant a decision against killing. Three plus symbols resulted in a euthanasia warrant being issued and the transfer of the child to a 'Children's Specialty Department' for death by injection or gradual starvation.

11. At Brandenburg, a former prison was converted into a killing center where the first Nazi experimental gassings took place. The gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms, but were actually hermetically sealed chambers connected by pipes to cylinders of carbon monoxide. Patients were generally drugged before being led naked into the gas chamber. Each killing center included a crematorium where the bodies were taken for disposal. Families were then falsely told the cause of death was medical such as heart failure or pneumonia

12. April 9, 1940 Nazis invade Denmark, Norway May 10, 1940 Nazis invade France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands June 10, 1940 Norway surrenders to Nazis Italy declares war on France/Britain

13. November 5, 1940 Roosevelt is re-elected president July 12, 1941 Mutual assistance between British and Soviets July 26, 1941 Roosevelt freezes Japanese assets and suspends relations with Japan

14. JEWISH GHETTOS Nazi-occupied Poland had an enormous Jewish population of over 2 million persons. On Heydrich's orders, Jews who were not shot outright were crammed into ghettos in places such as Warsaw, Krakow, and Lodz. Overcrowding and lack of food within these walled-in ghettos soon led to starvation, rampant diseases, and the resulting deaths of 500,000 Jews by mid 1941.

15. Jewish Ghettos Pictures

16. SEPT. 1,1941 JEWS ORDERED TO WEAR YELLOW STARS

17. DEC 7, 1941 JAPAN BOMBS PEARL HARBOR

18. APRIL 1942 JAPANESE AMERICANS SENT TO INTERMENT CAMPS

19. NOT ON YOUR TIMELINE LIQUIDATION OF LIDICE-June 10, 1942 Czech agents shot Heydrich (one of Hitler’s top officers). He later died of his wounds. As a further reprisal, Hitler ordered the small Czech mining village of Lidice to be liquidated on the fake charge that it had aided the assassins. In one of the most infamous single acts of World War Two, all 172 men and boys over age 16 in the village were shot while the women were deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp where most died. The village of Lidice was then destroyed building by building with explosives, then completely leveled until not a trace remained, with grain being planted over the flattened soil. The name was then removed from all German maps.

20. LIQUIDATION OF LIDICE

21. JUNE 1942 MASS MURDERS OF JEWS BEGINS AT AUSCHWITZ

22. Heading to Gas Chambers and Getting Rid of the Bodies

23. MAP OF DEATH CAMPS

24. February 2, 1943 Germans surrender Stalingrad- first big defeat by the Allies

25. July 25, 1943 Mussolini arrested and Fascist government falls Sept. 12, 1943 Mussolini is rescued by Germans Sept. 23, 1943 Mussolini re-establishes Fascist government

26. BIRKENAU

27. AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU Dec 16, 1943 - The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed.

28. July 20, 1944 German assassination attempt to kill Hitler fails August 4, 1944 Anne Frank and her family are arrested

29. JAN 26, 1945 SOVIETS LIBERATE AUSCHWITZ Front gate of Auschwitz. The sign reads “Work shall set you free”

30. Clothes and shoes of gassed prisoners.

31. April 10-12, 1945 Allies liberate Buchenwald Roosevelt dies/Truman takes over

32. A truckload of bodies from Buchenwald concentration camp. The Nazis were about to dispose of them by burning when the camp was captured by troops of the U.S. 3rd Army.

33. April 28, 1945 Mussolini is captured again and hanged April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide May 7, 1945 Surrender of German Troops

34. August 6, 1945 U.S. drops first atomic bomb on Hiroshima The bomb has 20,000 tons of TNT. From the resultant blast and the firestorm which quickly follows, more than half the city is laid waste. This bomb killed over 140,000 people in the city of Hiroshima. August 8, 1845 Soviets declare war on Japan August 9, 1945 U.S. drops 2 nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki August 14, 1945 Japan surrenders

35. ELIE WIESEL CURRENT PHOTOS