1933
January 30: Adolf
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg.
March 22: The
first official Nazi concentration camp (a camp in which people are
detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to
legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional
democracy) opens in Dachau, a small village located
near Munich.
1935
September 15:
"Nuremberg Laws": first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no
longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they
fly the German flag.
1938
March 13:
Anschluss (incorporation of Austria): all antisemitic (a suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage) decrees immediately
applied in Austria.
August 3: Italy
enacts sweeping antisemitic laws
November 9-10:
Kristallnacht (a pogrom or series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians): anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria,
and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted;
30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald,
Sachsenhausen).
1939
September 21:
Heydrich issues directives to establish ghettos (a part of a city predominantly occupied by a particular group, especially because of social or economic issues, or because they have been forced to live there) in German-occupied Poland.
October 12:
Germany begins deportation (the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country) of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland.
October 28: First
Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow.
1945
September 2: Japan
surrenders; end of World War II
The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II. The Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group".
Since 1933, the German Nazi Party controlled the country, a large-scale Anti-Semitic actions gradually developed.
The holocaust violated some of the Ten Commandments. Obviously, it violates the Fifth Commandment "You shall not kill." During the holocaust, there were approximately six million European Jews were killed.
Also, the holocaust violated the Seventh Commandments "You shall not steal." They killed Jews, and despoiled their property.
In addition, the holocaust violated the First Commandments "I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me." On some degree, they regarded Hitler as their God.
The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II. The Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group".
Since 1933, the German Nazi Party controlled the country, a large-scale Anti-Semitic actions gradually developed.
The holocaust violated some of the Ten Commandments. Obviously, it violates the Fifth Commandment "You shall not kill." During the holocaust, there were approximately six million European Jews were killed.
Also, the holocaust violated the Seventh Commandments "You shall not steal." They killed Jews, and despoiled their property.
In addition, the holocaust violated the First Commandments "I am the LORD your God: you shall not have strange Gods before me." On some degree, they regarded Hitler as their God.
