Transcript The Holocaust

The Holocaust
Chronology of the Holocaust
1933
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January 30- Hitler appointed Chancellor
March 22- Dachau concentration camp
opens
April 1- Boycott of Jewish businesses
April 7- “Laws for Reestablishment of
the Civil Service”
April 26- Gestapo established
May 10- public burning of unapproved
books
1934
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August 2- Hitler
proclaims himself
Führer
1935
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September 15- Nuremburg Laws
– Jews no longer German citizens
– Marriages between Jews and “Aryans”
prohibited
– Jews no longer allowed to fly the German
flag
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November 15- Germany defines a “Jew”
1936
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March 3- Jews barred from serving in
the armed forces
1938
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March 13- Anschluss: all anti-semitic
decrees applied to Austria
April 26- mandatory registration of all
property held by Jews
November 9-10- Kristallnacht
November 12- decree forcing all Jews
to transfer businesses to Aryans
November 15- all Jewish students
expelled from German schools
Humiliation of Jewish Students
1939
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January 30- Hitler speech to Reichstag:
war will mean “Vernichtung”
September 1- Germany invades Poland
Sept. 1939 - Germany invades Poland;
mass shootings by Einsatzgruppen
units of Polish Jews begin
October 28- First Polish ghettoes
established
1940
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May 20- Concentration camp
established at Auschwitz
November 16- Warsaw Ghetto sealed
1941
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March- Adolf Eichmann appointed head
of Department for Jewish Affairs
July 21- Majdanek opens
July 31- Reinhard Heydrich appointed to
implement the “Final Solution”
October- establishment of Auschwitz II
(Birkenau) extermination camp
December 8- Chelmno extermination
camp begins operation
Map of the camp System
1942
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January 20- Wannsee Conference
March 17- Belzec extermination camp
May- Sobibor extermination camp
July 22- Treblinka extermination camp
1943
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March- Liquidation of Krakow Ghetto
April 19- Warsaw Ghetto uprising
begins
June- Himmler orders liquidation of all
ghettoes in Poland and USSR
1944
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July 24- Russians liberate Majdanek
October 7- revolt by Auschwitz inmates
Zyklon B canisters
found at Majdanek
1945
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May 7-Germany surrenders
The Nuremburg Trial
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Dec 9, 1946 - 23 former SS doctors and
scientists go on trial at Nuremberg.
Sixteen found guilty, with 7 hanged.
March 11, 1946 - Former Auschwitz
Kommandant Höss found guilty and
hanged at Auschwitz, April 16, 1947
Sept 15, 1947 - Twenty one former SS
leaders go on trial in Nuremberg. 14
sentenced to death, with 4 executed.
The Nuremburg Trial (cont.)
Eichmann Trial
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May 11, 1960 - Adolf Eichmann is
captured in Argentina by Israeli secret
service.
April 11 - August 14 - Eichmann on trial
in Jerusalem for crimes against the
Jewish people, crimes against humanity
and war crimes. Found guilty and
hanged on May 31, 1962.
People of the Holocaust
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Perpetrators
Adolf Eichmann
Reinhard Heydrich Heinrich Himmler
People of the Holocaust
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Rescuers
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
Oskar Schindler
Raoul Wallenberg
Prepared by
Mark Klopfenstein
Blue Valley High School
Spring 2001