Monday 8 June 2009

Timeline of Holocaust

Timeline of the Holocaust
1919: World war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany is to be blamed. So Germany is forced to reduce its army and pay $57trillion for the war damage. This ruins Germany’s Economy and rage the German citizens. “Some of this anger is directed at an old scapegoat, the Jews”
November 1923: Hitler is in the jail for the failure of Beer hall Putzt. He writes Mein Kampf which talks bout his racial and religious theories. He says Germans are the master race. Their enemies are the Jews.

Nazis Win Power
1930: The Great Depression makes “the Nazis win 18% of the vote by promising jobs and a strong Germany.” Hitler comes to power.

1932: The Nazi become Germany’s Largest political party. People trust them for their
strong leadership that they will guide Germany to a strong country.

1933: Hitler is appointed as German Reich Chancellor. He curtails the right of Jews.
The first concentration camp in Dachau is opened.

1935-1936:Nuremberg Laws Passed – “The "Reich Citizens Law" declares that only persons of "German blood" are Reich citizens, and that those of "impure blood" are inferior.”

1937: Buchenwald Concentration camp opens—all sorts of enemies are sent here for extermination such as, Jews, Gypsies and etc.

1939:
Hitler invades Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Ghettos are established in occupied Poland by order of Reinhard Heydrich; Jews are isolated from their communities. Directive by Hans Frank to establish 'Judenraete' (Jewish Councils) in the Government-General.
First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow; soon after, many other ghettos are established.
Identifying arm bands made obligatory for all Jews in Central Poland.
1941:
Heydrich is appointed by Goering to carry out the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (the extermination of all Jews in Europe).
Massacres total of 142,000 Jews
Deportation of German Jews to concentration camps begins.
Experimentation with gassing at Auschwitz begins.
Protestant villagers of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in southeastern France start protecting between 2,500 and 5,000 Jews.
1942:
Wannsee Conference on the Nazi "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
Deportation of 300,000 Jews from Warsaw ghetto to Nazi death camp at Treblinka begins.
Extermination begins at Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek camps.
Unified Partisan Organization (FPO) set at Vilna.
Resistance begins in other ghettos.
"Zegota," a Polish underground movement to save Jews, established in Warsaw.
100,000 to 400,000 Gypsies deported to Auschwitz in December 1942.
June
Himmler orders the liquidation of all ghettos in Poland and the USSR.
Danish underground saves 7,000 Jews.
March
Hitler invades Hungary.
Deportation of 14,000 Slovakians and Hungarians to Auschwitz.
July
USSR liberates Majdanek death camp
Warsaw uprising, crushed by Nazis, causes 200,000 casualties.
Evacuation of Auschwitz.
1945
Yalta Conference in February, where Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet to discuss their strategy in 1945.
Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz crematoria as Nazis try to hide evidence of their death camps.
LIBERATION:
Auschwitz-Birkenau is liberated by USSR troops.
Buchenwald is liberated by the United States.
Bergen-Belsen is liberated by British.
Dachau is liberated by the United States.

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