IMPORTANT DATES RELATING TO THE HOLOCAUST
1919
May 7: Signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty ends World War I
1932
Hitler receives 37% of the vote during national elections; the NSDAP becomes the
largest party in Germany.
1933
January 27: Hitler becomes leader of Germany
1933
March: 10,000 active labor union members are arrested in Germany
1933
March 23: Hitler acquires absolute power in Germany
1933
Catholic Bishops declare loyalty to Hitler
1933
April 1: Joseph Goebbels declares the official boycott of Jewish shopkeepers, doctors
and lawyers
1935
Nuremberg laws are passed
1937
Gestapo sterilizes 385 black children
1938
November 9-11: Crystal Night (Kristallnacht) takes place
1938
November 12: first mass arrests of Jews
1939
January 30: Hitler announces “the destruction of the Jewish race”
1939
September 1: German troops attack Poland
1941
February: Wannsee Conferenz