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Title: Timeline of the Holocaust


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Timeline of the Holocaust
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1933 Nazi Party Takes Control
  • Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor (PM)
  • Civil liberties temporarily suspended
  • Dachau created200 Communists imprisoned
  • Unacceptable books burned

3
1935 Persecutions intensify
  • Nuremberg laws deprive German Jews of
    citizenship, and the right marry or work
  • Star of David armbands, J on passport
  • Persecution of others considered racially
    inferior including Gypsies, Jehovahs Witnesses
    and homosexuals

4
1936 Olympics
  • Olympic games held in Germanyonly Aryans compete
    promoting propaganda
  • Signs barring Jews from public places are removed

5
1938 Kristallnacht
  • 200 synagogues destroyed, 7500 Jewish stores
    looted, 30,000 sent to concentration camps
  • Officially was a spontaneous reaction to a Jewish
    boys shooting of a German embassy official
  • Really planned weeks in advance SS told it was
    an action not to be stopped
  • Jews then forced to give up businesses and were
    expelled from schools

6
1939 WWII Begins
  • Germany invades Poland
  • Hitler orders the systematic murder of physically
    and mentally disabled
  • Polish Jews ordered to wear armbands, register,
    relocate

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1940 Deportations
  • German Jews deported to Poland
  • Jews forced into ghettos
  • Germany conquers Netherlands, Denmark, Norway,
    Belgium, Luxembourg, France

8
1941 Increased Killing
  • 33,771 Ukrainian Jews killed by mobile unit in 2
    days
  • Death camp at Chelmno opens
  • Hungary deports 17,000 Jews--thousands used as
    slave laborers, Nazis massacre rest

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1942 Wannsee Conference
  • Final Solution discussed
  • 5 more death camps open including
    Auschwitz-Birkenau
  • 20-25 of Jews who would die in Holocaust are
    already dead
  • Eastern European ghettos emptied

10
1943 Warsaw Uprising
  • Jews strike back takes Nazis month to put down
    the uprising
  • 80 of Jews who would die have perished

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1945-1946 End of WWII
  • Nazis evacuate death camps
  • American forces liberate survivors
  • 1/3 of all Jews are murdered survivors are
    Displaced Persons (DPs), homeless
  • Nuremberg trials

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Legacy
  • Dear Teacher
  • I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes
    saw what no man should witness.
  • Gas chambers built by LEARNED engineers
  • Children poisoned by EDUCATED physicians
  • Infants killed by TRAINED nurses
  • Women and babies shot and burned by HIGH SCHOOL
    and COLLEGE graduates
  • My request is Help your students become human.
  • Reading, writing and arithmetic are important
    only if they serve to make our children more
    humane
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