The Holocaust

Timeline of the Holocaust: 1933-1945

• January 30, 1933: Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
• March 22, 1933: Dachau opens as a concentration camp near Munich
• April 11, 1933: Nazis issue a Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents.
• November 24, 1933:Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
• February 10, 1936 : The German Gestapo is placed above the law
• March 7, 1936: Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
• October 28, 1938 : Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's Land' near the Polish border for several months.
• November 7, 1938: Ernst vom Rath, third secretary in the German Embassy in Paris, is shot and mortally wounded by Herschel Grynszpan, the 17-year-old son of one of the deported Polish Jews. Rath dies on November 9, precipitating Kristallnacht.
• November 9/10:Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
• November 12, 1938: Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht.
•  December 14, 1938 :Hermann Göring takes charge of resolving the "Jewish Question"
• September 1, 1939: Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop. 3.35 million, the largest in Europe). Beginning of SS activity in Poland.
• October 26, 1939:Forced labor decree issued for Polish Jews aged 14 to 60.
• November 23, 1939 : Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10
• January 25, 1940 :Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
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• In 1943 - The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces.
• November 25, 1944 - Himmler orders destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz
• April 30, 1945: Hitler commits suicide

Antisemitism is the hatred or prejudice agaisnt Jewish people.
Concentration camps are places in which large numbers of prisoners are held as persecuted minorities.
Deportion is the expulsion of an unwanted person or race from a coutnry.
Genocide is total destruction of a specific race.
A ghetto is a poor negelcted part of a residential city.
A holocaust is a detruction on a mass scale.
Kristallnacht was the night of broken glass in which nazis destroyed many jewish shops and then blamed the jews.

The Nazis broke several commandments in the holocaust. Among these were the sixth, seventh, and eigth. They murdered, raped, and stole from jews.