The Holocaust

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The Holocaust
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Chronology of the Holocaust
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1933

• 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

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1934

• August 2- Hitler
  proclaims himself Führer

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1935

• September 15- Nuremburg Laws
• Jews no longer German citizens
• Marriages between Jews and Aryans prohibited
• Jews no longer allowed to fly the German flag
• November 15- Germany defines a Jew

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1936

• March 3- Jews barred from serving in the armed
  forces

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1938

• 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

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Humiliation of Jewish Students
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1939

• 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

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1940

• May 20- Concentration camp established at
  Auschwitz
  
• November 16- Warsaw Ghetto sealed

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1941

• 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

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Map of the camp System
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1942

• January 20- Wannsee Conference
• March 17- Belzec extermination camp
• May- Sobibor extermination camp
• July 22- Treblinka extermination camp

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1943

• March- Liquidation of Krakow Ghetto
• April 19- Warsaw Ghetto uprising begins
• June- Himmler orders liquidation of all ghettoes
  in Poland and USSR

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1944

• July 24- Russians liberate Majdanek
• October 7- revolt by Auschwitz inmates

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1945

• May 7-Germany surrenders

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The Nuremburg Trial

• 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.

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The Nuremburg Trial (cont.)
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Eichmann Trial

• 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.

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People of the Holocaust

• Perpetrators

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People of the Holocaust

• Rescuers

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Prepared by

• Mark Klopfenstein
• Blue Valley High School
• Spring 2001