Holocaust Timeline
Jan 30, 1933: | Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany |
Mar 20, 1933: | SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich |
Apr 1, 1933: | Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany |
Apr 7, 1933: | Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service |
Jul 14, 1933: | Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases |
Sept 15, 1935: | Nuremberg Race Laws |
Mar 16, 1935: | Germany introduces military conscription |
Mar 7, 1936: | German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland |
Aug 1, 1936: | Summer Olympics begin in Berlin |
Mar 11, 1936 - Mar 13, 1936: | Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union) |
Nov 9, 1938 - | Kristallnacht (nationwide program in Germany) |
May 13, 1938: | The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany |
Sept 29, 1938: | Munich Agreement |
Aug 23, 1939: | Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement |
Sept 1, 1939: | Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe |
Sept 17, 1939: | The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east |
Oct 8, 1939: | Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland |
Apr 9, 1940: | Germany invades Denmark and Norway |
May 10, 1940: | Germany attacks Western Europe |
Jul 10, 1940: | Battle of Britain begins |
Apr 6, 1941: | Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece |
Jun 22, 1941: | Germany invades the Soviet Union |
Jul 6, 1941: | Mobile killing units shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort in Kovno |
Aug 3, 1941: | Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” program in a public sermon |
Sept 28, 1941 - Sept 29, 1941: | Mobile killing units shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev |
Nov 7, 1941: | Mobile killing units round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki |
Nov 30, 1941: | Mobile killing units shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest |
Dec 6, 1941: | Soviet winter counteroffensive launched |
Dec 7, 1941: | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor |
Dec 8, 1941: | US declares war on Japan |
Dec , 1941: | The first killing operations begin at Chelmno |
Dec 11, 1941: | Nazi Germany declares war on the United States |
Jan 16, 1942: | Germans begin mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to Chelmno |
Jan 20, 1942: | Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany |
Mar 27, 1942: | Germans begin mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, primarily to Auschwitz |
Jun 28, 1942: | Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad |
Jul 15, 1942: | Germans begin mass deportation of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands primarily to Auschwitz |
Jul 22, 1942: | Germans begin mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka |
Sept 12, 1942: | Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka |
Nov 23, 1942: | Soviet troops counter attack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city |
Apr 19, 1943: | Warsaw ghetto uprising begins |
Jul 5, 1943: | Battle of Kursk |
Oct 1, 1943: | Rescue of Jews in Denmark |
Nov 6, 1943: | Soviet troops liberate Kiev |
Mar 19, 1944: | Germans forces occupy Hungary |
May 15, 1944: | Germans begin mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary |
Jun 6, 1944: | D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France |
Jul 22, 1944: | The Soviets launch an offensive in eastern Belarus |
Jul 25, 1944: | Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy |
Aug 1, 1944: | Warsaw Polish uprising begins |
Aug 15, 1944: | Allied forces land in southern France |
Aug 25, 1944: | Liberation of Paris |
Dec 16, 1944: | Battle of the Bulge |
Jan 12, 1945: | Soviet winter offensive |
Jan 18, 1945: | Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from Auschwitz |
Jan 25, 1945: | Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from Stutthof |
Jan 27, 1945: | Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz |
Mar 7, 1945: | U.S. troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen |
Apr 16, 1945: | The Soviets encircle Berlin in their final offensive |
April 29, 1945: | American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp |
Apr 30, 1945: | Adolf Hitler commits suicide |
May 7, 1945: | Germany surrenders to the western Allies |
May 9, 1945: | Germany surrenders to the Soviets |
