Our Holocaust Timeline! -1933
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- Adolf Hitler
was elected Chancellor of Germany -The Nazis set up the first concentration camp at Dachau. The first inmates are 200 Communists. - Books with ideas considered dangerous to Nazi beliefs are burned. |
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| -1934 | - Hitler combines the
positions of chancellor and president to become 'Fuhrer' or 'leader of
Germany.' - Jewish newspapers can no longer be sold in the streets |
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| -1935 | - Jewsish poeple are deprived of their citizenship and other basic rights. | |
| -1936 | - Nazis boycott Jewish-owned
business. - The Olympic Games are held in Germany; Jewish people are moved until the event is over - Jewish people no longer have the right to vote. |
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| -1938 | - German troops annexed Austria. - On Kristallnacht, the 'Night of Broken Glass,' Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria - 30,000 Jewish people are arrested. - Jewish people must carry ID cards and Jewish passports are marked with a "J. - Jewish people no longer, attend plays, concerts, etc.; all Jewish children are moved to Jewish schools. - Jewish businesses are shut down; they must sell businesses and hand over securities and jewels. - Jewish people must hand over driver's licenses and car registrations. - Jewish people must be in certain places at certain times. |
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| -1939 | - Germany takes over
Czechoslovakia and invades Poland. - World War II begins as Britain and France declare war on Germany. - Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; Jewish people must turn in radios to the police; Jewish people must wear yellow stars of David. |
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| -1940 | - Nazis begin deporting
German Jewish people to Poland. - Jewish people are forced into ghettos. - Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jewish people in Poland. - Jewish people are put into concentration camps. |
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| -1941 | - Germany attacks the
Soviet Union. - Jewish people throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos. - Jewish people may not leave their houses without permission from the police. - Jewish people may no longer use public telephones. |
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| -1942 | - Nazi officials discuss
the 'Final Solution' - their plan to kill all European Jewish people-
to the government officials. - Jewish people are forbidden to: subscribe to newspapers, own pets, go to school, use public transportation, or keep electrical equipment like typewriters, or bicycles. |
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| -1943 | - February: About 80
to 85 percent of the Jewish people who would die in the Holocaust have
already been murdered. |
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| -1944 | - Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jewish people each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered. | |
| -1945 | - Hitler is defeated
and World War II ends in Europe. - The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied. - Many survivors are placed in displaced persons facilities. |
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| -1946 | - An International Military
Tribunal (Judicial assembly) is created by Britain, France,the United
States, and the Soviet Union. - At Nuremburg, Nazi leaders are tried for war crimes by the above Judicial assembly. |
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| -1947 | - The United Nations establishes a Jewish homeland in British-controlled Palestine, which becomes the State of Israel in 1948. |