The Holocaust: a great or complete devastation or
destruction, especially by fire; any mass slaughter or
reckless destruction of life
1933-1945
“”First set fire to their synagogues or
schools…Second, I advise that their houses also be
razed and destroyed…instead they might be lodged
under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies…Third, I
advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic
writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and
blasphemy are taught, be taken from them….Fourth I
advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach
henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb…Fifth, I
advise that safe-conduct on the highways be
abolished completely for the Jews…let them stay at
home.”
Martin Luther, On Jews and Their Lies, 1543
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Henry Ford
Alfred Sloan &
G.M. Motors
1933-1945
Beer Hall Putsch
Nov. 9, 1923
Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF
Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF
• “Mein Kampf” means “My Struggle”;
Hitler wrote it while in prison in the 1920’s
• Still banned in most European countries
• Given to every newly married German
couple from the late 1930’s onward
1933-1945
1933-1945
1933-1945
1933
Hitler becomes
Chancellor
1933-22,
1945
March
1933
Dachau
Concentration Camp
built
1933-1945
May 10, 1933
Book Burnings
Historical Film Footage of
book burning in Berlin
1933-1945
Night of the Long Knives
June 30, 1934
"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of
justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the
German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people."
"It was no secret that this time the revolution would have to be bloody; when we
spoke of it we called it 'The Night of the Long Knives.' Everyone must know for
all future time that if he raises his hand to strike the State, then certain death is his
lot."
1933-1945
Sept. 10, 1935
Nuremberg Laws
1933-1945
August 1-16, 1936
Summer Olympics in
Berlin
Historical Film Footage of
1936 Olympics in Berlin
1933-1945
October 1938
Deportations
Begin
1933-1945
November 7, 1938
Assassination of
Ernst Vom Rath
'Being a Jew is not a crime. I
am not a dog. I have a right to
live and the Jewish people
have a right to exist on this
earth. Wherever I have been I
have been chased like an
animal.'9
--Herchel
Grynszpan
1933-1945
November 9, 1938
Kristallnacht
American Response to
Kristallnacht Historical Film
Footage
1933-1945
May 1939
S.S. St. Louis
American Video about
the SS St. Louis
Historical Film Footage
from USHMM
19331945
Sept. 1, 1939
WWII Begins:
Germany attacks
Poland
Hitler speaks before the
German Parliament
Historical Film Footage
from the USHMM
19331945
October 1939
Euthanasia Program
targets the
handicapped
Adolf Hitler's
authorization for
the Euthanasia
Program
(Operation T4),
signed in October
1939 but dated
September 1, 1939.
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National Archives
and Records
Administration,
College Park, Md.
Buses used to
transport patients
to Hadamar
euthanasia center.
The windows
were painted to
prevent people
from seeing those
inside. Germany,
between May and
September 1941.
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Hessisches
Hauptstaatsarchiv
Wiesbaden
1933-1945
Summer 1941
Killing Squads
“Einsatzgruppen”
1933-1945
December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Historical Film
Footage from USHMM
1933-1945
January 20, 1942
Wannsee
Conference
Reinhard Heydrich, chief of SD (Security) Service
19331945
February 19, 1942
Executive Order
9066: Camps for
Japanese in America
1933-1945
Summer 1942
Deportations to
camps begin
1933-1945
April-October 1943
Rebellion
Treblinka under attack
Train tracks leading into Sobibor
1933-1945
December 1944
Death Marches
1933-1945
January-May
1945: Liberation
1933-1945
April 30, 1945
Death of Hitler
1933-1945
May 8, 1945
Surrender of
Germany
1933-1945
October 18, 1945October 1, 1946
Nuremberg Trials
Nuremberg Trial Convictions
Hitler’s MEIN KAMPF
Guilty: 12- sentenced to
death; 3- life imprisonment;
four- 10-20 years in prison
Innocent: 3 were acquitted
1933-1945
May 14, 1948
Israel: A New State
1933-1945
“Only guard yourself and guard your
soul carefully, lest you forget the
things your eyes saw, and lest these
things depart your heart all the days
of your life, and you shall make them
known to your children, and to your
children’s children.”
Deuteronomy 4:9