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Timeline of the Holocaust Asset Guide Timeline of the Holocaust Asset Guide Photos, Artifacts, & Instructional Videos Documents, Handouts, & Maps Testimonies Year Date Entry Stickers with Nazi propaganda Hindenburg and Hitler in Harry Hankin describes the day Hitler slogans: "One People, One Potsdam, Germany was appointed Chancellor of Germany Reich, One Fuhrer" Echoes Student Handout: The Weimar and reflects on the belief of older Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party German Jews who thought Hitler would Key Historical Concepts in A sign calling on Germans to only be in power for a short period of JAN 30- Adolf Hitler becomes Holocaust Education: The greet each other with "Heil time. FEB 1 chancellor of Germany Weimar Republic Hitler" The Reichstag building after being set on fire in Berlin, Germany, Henry Small recalls being called to work on February 27, 1933 on the night of the Reichstag arson. FEB 27- Reichstag arson leads to MAR 5 state of emergency Graph: results of elections to Reichstag elections: the Hitler voting in elections at the German Reichstag, March MAR Nazis gain 44 percent of Koenigsberg, Germany, 1933 5 the vote 5, 1933 Key Historical Concepts in Herbert Kahn describes why and how First concentration A view of the barracks in the Echoes Student Handout: Concentration Holocaust Education: Nazi his older brother was arrested and sent MAR camp is established in camp of Dachau, Germany Camps 22 Dachau, Germany Camps to Dachau. Adolf Hitler watches an SA Key Historical Concepts in MAR The Nazis sponsor the procession in Dortmund, Holocaust Education: The 24 Enabling Act Germany, 1933 Totalitarian Regime A man supporting the boycott of Jewish businesses, next to Sign from Nazi Germany: a Jewish-owned store in "Jews are not wanted here" Berlin, Germany, April 1933 Otto Hertz remembers the humiliation he felt when his family's store was Nazi propaganda, boycott boycotted. sign, 1933 Sign from "The German The Nazis declare a Workers' Front" which reads boycott of all Jewish APR A Nazi propaganda sticker "Free of Jews" 1 businesses in Germany A sign in Germany calling for a Nameplate of Dr. Werner Yad Vashem Resource Center: Civil Service Reform - 1933 general boycott of all Jewish Liebenthal, Notary & Exemptions from the Civil Service Law, Jews are barred from businesses, April 1933 Advocate Berlin, April 4, 1933 working in the civil APR service and are stripped 7 of their equal rights Judith Becker recounts the consequences of her brother being School quota system allowed to attend school for longer limits the number of A class in a Jewish school before the war, Berlin, Germany than other Jewish students. Jewish high school and APR university students in Heinz Bohm discusses why he was 25 Germany allowed to go to school in 1933. On May 10, 1933, Nazis in Students organized by the Nazi Berlin burned works of Jewish party parade in front of the Persecution of Jewish authors, the library of the building of the Institute for homosexual advocate Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Sexual Research in Berlin prior and researcher, Magnus and other works considered MAY to pillaging it on May 6, 1933 6 Hirschfeld "un-German" SS men gathering books to be The Nazis burn burned in Germany A public burning of books in thousands of anti-Nazi, Berlin, Germany, May 10, MAY Jewish-authored, and A book burning in Berlin, 1933 10 other books Germany, 1933 Reich Law Gazette, Forced sterilization of Propaganda slide featuring July 25, German citizens with two doctors working at an 1933, with the announcement unidentified asylum for the of the Law for the Prevention JUL congenital disabilities mentally ill, Germany, 1934 of Diseased Offspring 14 begins Yad Vashem Resource Center: Excerpt Hitler mounting the staircase during a gathering of the NSDAP in from the Compendium of the Bueckeberg, Germany, 1934 JUL Germany is proclaimed Constitutional Laws and Principles of 14 a one-party state Nazi Ideology (Weltanschauung) Letter from German Foreign Hitler announcing on the Minister, Konstantin von radio Germany's withdrawal Neurath, stating Germany’s Germany quits League from the League of Nations in withdrawal from the League OCT of Nations and Berlin, Germany, 1933 14 disarmament talks of Nations Graph: results of elections to The Nazi Party gets 92 A Nazi parade in Meiningen, the German Reichstag, NOV percent of the vote in Germany, 1931 12 one-party elections November 12, 1933 Echoes & Reflections is a trademark of the Echoes & Reflections Partnership. © 2005-2018 All rights reserved. 1 Year Date Entry Photos, Artifacts, & Instructional Videos Documents, Handouts, & Maps Testimonies JAN German-Polish non- Photograph of Polish statesman, Józef Piłsudski 26 aggression pact 1934 Ludwig Spiro discusses the death of his JUN "The Night of the Long Photograph of Ernst Roehm, the SA Chief of Staff neighbor on "The Night of the Long 30 Knives" Knives". Albrecht Becker remembers when and SEP Gestapo compiles list of Albrecht Becker and Vendever Brown why he was arrested. 6 homosexual men President Hindenburg in Germany, before the war Hitler in uniform next to a soldier carrying a swastika flag President Hindenburg with in Germany AUG German President Hitler, in Germany 2 Hindenburg dies Year Date Entry Photos, Artifacts, & Instructional Videos Documents, Handouts, & Maps Testimonies Lidia Vago recounts how a stamp made A march in the Saar region of Germany on the day of the Map of Europe after 1919 and the her understand one of the goals of Nazi JAN Germany reclaims the referendum about Saar, January 13, 1935 Treaty of Versailles 13 Saar region Germany: land expansion. Adolf Hitler standing with military men before the Tower of Honor on Military conscription in MAR the Remembrance Day for German heroes, Berlin, Germany, 1935 16 Germany begins Imprisoned Jehovah's A Jehova's Witness, Auschwitz Rudolf Graichen recalls why his father Witnesses in Büren, prisoner number 11 in Auschwitz, stopped being a practicing Jehovah’s Wewelsburg, Germany, May Poland Witness. 1945 Post-war identification explaining that Rudolf Franz Wohlfahrt explains why he was Notification of the execution Graichen is a Jehovah's reported to and arrested by the Nazis. APR Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse of Franz Wohlfart's father Witness and was persecuted 1 military draft during the war Jewish people are no Yad Vashem Resource Center: Protest of longer allowed to serve A mass assembly of the German army in Munich, Germany, the Reichsvertretung against the refusal November 7, 1935 to include Jews in the Wehrmacht, 1935 MAY in the German armed 31 forces March 1935 Paragraph 175 of the Criminal Code is Heinrich Himmler's secret decree establishing the "Reich Central amended to Office to Combat Homosexuality and Abortion" SEP criminalize 1 homosexuality Measuring instrument for A Nazi parade, 1935 racial classifications from the 1930s A chart from Germany A tool used for measuring the Echoes Student Handout: Nazi Germany Herbert Kohn details how Nuremberg displaying who was considered bridge of the nose for racial and Anti-Jewish Policy Laws impacted his father's business. a Jew according to the purposes Nuremberg Laws SEP Nuremberg Laws Key Historical Concepts in Holocaust Education: Nuremberg Laws 15 enacted A Sinti-Roma boy asleep in a A Sinti-Roma girl in a house in crowded room in Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, 1935 Germany, 1935 A woman in a Sinti-Roma Sinti Roma girl in Bavaria Nuremberg Laws are residence in Germany, 1935 NOV expanded to include Roma Two German soldiers in a group photograph with Romani people 14-26 and other groups with Nazi flag in the background, Yugoslavia, 1940-1944 Echoes & Reflections is a trademark of the Echoes & Reflections Partnership. 2 © 2005-2018 All rights reserved. Year Date Entry Photos, Artifacts, & Instructional Videos Documents, Handouts, & Maps Testimonies MAR The Germans enter the On the left, the German army entering the Rhineland; on the right, 7 Rhineland a tank manufacturing plant Irene Spiegel, a member of the United Spain's Head of State, Francisco Franco, making a speech in Bilbao, Professionals union, explains her JUL The Spanish Civil War Spain, June 1939 decision to go to Spain as a nurse during 17 begins the Spanish Civil War. German athletes are giving the Bearers of the Olympic flag in Nazi salute during an awards Yad Vashem Resource Center: Order to Berlin, Germany, 1936 Anthony Marreco remembers attending ceremony at the Olympic party leaders in Bavaria to remove anti- the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 1936 AUG The Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, Athletes Jesse Owens and Luz Jewish signs, Summer 1936 1 Games begin in Berlin 1936 Long in Berlin, Germany, 1936 A traveling exhibition of the A photograph of a military "Four Year Plan" in Krakow, training of German soldiers SEP The Four Year Plan is Poland 9 unveiled The Rome-Berlin Axis Agreement is signed Adolf Hitler and Benito Adolf Hitler and Benito between Italy and Mussolini in Germany, 1934 Mussolini in uniform OCT Germany based on political 25 interests Hitler receiving a delegation Signing of the Anti-Comintern from the Japanese navy in NOV Germany and Japan sign Pact, 1936 25 a military pact Berlin, Germany, 1934 Year Date Entry Photos, Artifacts, & Instructional Videos Documents, Handouts, & Maps Testimonies MAR Pope Pius XI responds to Pope Pius XI, head of the Catholic Church between 1922 to 1939 German racist policies 1937 21 Barbed wire fences and a Key Historical Concepts in watchtower at Buchenwald, Holocaust Education: Nazi Germany; photograph taken Camps post-war Echoes Student Handout: Concentration Camps Chess set made from paper in Buchenwald A prisoner's coat from Buchenwald by political JUL concentration camp is Buchenwald 19 established in Germany prisoner, Hermann Rautenberg Year Date Entry Photos, Artifacts, & Instructional Videos Documents, Handouts, & Maps Testimonies A concluding parade in Vienna, A Photograph of the entry of the Alice Boddy recounts her brother Austria, prior to the referendum Map of Nazi Domination in German army into Scharnitz, finding her and taking her home on the The Anschluss –The concerning the annexation of Europe, 1938-1942 Austria, on March 13, 1938 day of the Anschluss.
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