Transcript Progression of Persecution:

Progression of
Persecution:
The Nazis’ Rise to Power
Before 1933
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The Jews had been in Europe for over 1,000
years; since the Roman Conquest of Palestine in
the 1st century
The U.S. Stock Market crash of 1929 caused the
German economy to fall apart
WWI (1914-1918) had devastated Germany
The Weimar Republic wasn’t solving the
unemployment problem
1933
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FDR becomes President of the U.S.
Nazis receive the majority of votes in the 1933
election
Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor
First national boycott of Jewish business
Dachau opens in March for political prisoners
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
1934
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Hitler establishes himself as dictator
Freedoms of press and assembly are
restricted
“Non-German” books are burned
Axis Powers are established: Italy and
Germany
Jews are fired from government positions
1935
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Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles
Jehovah’s witnesses are banned from
government work; sent to camps
Nuremberg laws are passed
Parliament gives Hitler power for four more
years
1936
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78,000 Jews have left Germany
Jewish doctors cannot practice
Jews cannot vote
The Olympics are held in Berlin
Homosexuals are sent to concentration
camps
1937
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Buchenwald opens
Japan joins the Axis Powers
Passports for Jews are limited
Jewish property is seized
1938
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Austria is annexed
All government officials are replaced with
members of the Nazi party
32 countries meet in France and decide not to
take in Jewish immigrants
All Jewish children are expelled from school
“Kristallnacht” in Germany:
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300,000 Jews arrested
191 synagogues burned
7,500 shops looted
1939
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Polish Jews are moved into ghettos when
Poland is invaded
Czechoslovakia is occupied
Parliament is controlled by the Nazis
The “Final Solution” is outlined by Hitler
S.S. St. Louis is sent back from Cuba and
the U.S. with Jewish refugees on board
Euthanasia policy is created
1940
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Holland, Belgium, France, Denmark, and
Norway are invaded
Auschwitz is built
Anne Frank goes into hiding
France surrenders
Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, and
Romania are the Axis Powers
1941
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The Soviet Union is invaded
Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7
Yugoslavia and Greece are invaded
Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S.
Thousands of Jews have been transported
to concentration camps or have been
murdered before arriving there
1942
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The “Final Solution” is actively put into
practice: the annihilation of 11 milllion Jews
in Europe has begun
All Jews in concentration camps are sent to
Auschwitz
1943
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There is a revolt against the Nazis in the
Warsaw ghetto
There is an uprising against the SS at
Sobibor
1944
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430,000 Hungarian Jews are sent to
Auschwitz
June 6 is D-Day: The Allies invade at
Normandy
1945
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January 17: The deathmarch out of
Auschwitz begins
Russian army enters Germany from the
east; Allies from the west
April 30: Hitler commits suicide
May 8: Germany surrenders
November: Year-long trials for war crimes
are held in Nuremberg
Additional Notes:
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Concentration camps were liberated an
photographed as Allied and Russian forces
took control of Europe
Six million Jews and five million other
victims were murdered during the
Holocaust