Timeline 



January 30th 1933

Hitler got appointed as chancelor

April 1st 1933

Hitler starts advicing people not to shop at Jewish stores or businesses

May 10th 1933

The Nazi party starts burning Jewish books and Jewish related things

July 14th 1933

East European Jewish Immigrants lose their German citizenship

August 2nd 1934

Hitler is now leader of Germany

May 31st 1935

Jews are no longer allowed to serve in the German military

September 15th 1935

Nuremburg laws (Anti-sematism laws) have now been passed. Jews are no longer considered German citizens, Jews are not allowed to marry Aaryans, and also they're also not allowed to fly the German flag

March 3rd 1936

Jewish doctors are no longer allowed to study in German institutions

November 9th and 10th 1938

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) has begun. Some of the things that happened on the Night of Broken glass are...

  1. 200 Synagogues were destroyed

  2. 7,500 Jewish shops looted

  3. 30,000 male Jews were sent to concentration camps

November 12th 1938

A law passes forcing Jews to hand their businesses over to Aaryans

November 15th 1938

All Jewish students are expelled from schools

December 12th 1938

1 billion mark ($863,013,835.27 NZD) fine given to German Jews for destruction of property during the Kristallnacht

September 1st 1939

World War 2 starts. Germany invades Poland

October 12th 1939

Germany starts deporting Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland

November 23rd 1939

Jews in German-occupied Poland are forced to wear and arm band or yellow star so then they're more easily identified as being a Jew

May 10th 1940

Germans invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France

June 22nd 1940

France surrenders WWII

August 8th 1940

Battle of Britain begins; Germany's Air Force starts firing mass attacks at the UK

April 6th 1941

Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece

June 22nd 1941

Germany invades the Soviet Union

September 1st 1941

German Jews now have to wear a yellow star of David with the word "Jude" on it

September 28th and 29th 1941

34,000 Jews were killed at a place called Babi Yar

December 8th 1941

Chelmno extermination camp gets up and running and by the end of 1943, 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs were murdered by this extermination camp

December 11th 1941

US declares war on Japan and Germany

German flag

March 17th 1942

Extermination begins in the Belzec extermination camp and by the end of 1942 (in 9 months) they murder 600,000 Jews

Some time on May 1942

Extermination begins in the Sobibor extermination camp, and by the end of October 1943, they had killed 250,000 Jews

October 14th 1943

The Sobibor extermination camp stops it's operations due to a prisoner revolt

April 30th 1945

Hitler commits suicide and is now dead