Holocaust Chronology
1933
-Hitler appointed chancellor (the fine and emergency powers)
-Dachau opens
1933-4
-Basic rights taken away -> For example?
1935
-Nuremberg Laws
1937
-Buchenwald concentration camp established
1935 – 37
- Basic rights taken away – like?
1938
-November 10 => Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)
=>Turning point! **Why?
1939
-War begins (Poland taken)
-“Judenrate” Policy => Europe free of Jews
1940
-Ghettos established =>Lodz / Warsaw
(Even more in 1941 > Krakow / Lublin)
1941
-Einsatzrüppen = mobile killing units
-Hermann Goering gives Reinhard Heydrich the go ahead
for the “Final Solution”
1942
-Wannsee Conference (coordination of the “Final Solution”
planned).
-Knowledge of events announced in U.S.
1943
-First Warsaw Ghetto uprising
(42-45)
-Concentration camps, particularly
Auschwitz, conduct mass extermination.
1944
-Allied powers begin liberating the camps as they retake
conquered territory.
1945
-Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin
1948
-State of Israel Established (Palestine had been a mandate
under the “rule” of Great Britain since the end of World War I)