Transcript timeline of inhumanity

TIMELINE OF
INHUMANITY
WWII
•WORLD WAR I
ENDS-NOVEMBER
11, 1918
•ENABLING ACT
GIVES HITLER
POWER-MARCH 23,
1933
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.)
•February 10, 1936
•Gestapo placed
above the law-
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.
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.
March 15/16, 1939
•NAZIS TAKE OVER
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
• As the Nazis take over different countries,
the Jewish people in those communities
become targets.
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.
September 3, 1939
•Britain, France,
Australia declare war
on Germany
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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
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.
Jewish Ghettos Pictures
SEPT. 1,1941
JEWS
ORDERED TO
WEAR
YELLOW
STARS
DEC 7, 1941 JAPAN BOMBS
PEARL HARBOR
APRIL 1942
JAPANESE AMERICANS SENT
TO INTERMENT CAMPS
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.
LIQUIDATION OF LIDICE
JUNE 1942
• MASS MURDERS OF JEWS
BEGINS AT AUSCHWITZ
Heading to Gas Chambers and
Getting Rid of the Bodies
MAP OF DEATH CAMPS
February 2, 1943
Germans surrender Stalingradfirst big defeat by the Allies
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
BIRKENAU
AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU
Dec 16, 1943 The chief
surgeon at
Auschwitz
reports that
106 castration
operations
have been
performed.
July 20, 1944
• German assassination attempt to kill Hitler
fails
August 4, 1944
• Anne Frank and her family are arrested
JAN 26, 1945
SOVIETS LIBERATE AUSCHWITZ
• Front gate of Auschwitz. The sign reads
“Work shall set you free”
Clothes and shoes of gassed
prisoners.
April 10-12, 1945
Allies liberate Buchenwald
Roosevelt dies/Truman takes over
• 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.
April 28, 1945
• Mussolini is captured again and hanged
• April 30, 1945
• Hitler commits suicide
• May 7, 1945
• Surrender of German Troops
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 2nd atomic bomb on Nagasaki
August 14, 1945
• Japan surrenders
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